Pep 3105: the end of print?

Edward K Ream edreamleo at charter.net
Fri Feb 16 07:07:42 EST 2007


> I'm pretty sure you're mistaken. Python 3 will be the release that breaks
> code. Hopefully very little, but there almost certainly will be some.

Pep 3105 breaks a *lot* of code, despite the bland assertion that most
production programs don't use print.

Presumably, Guido wanted to improve print in such a way that *more* people
would use it.  But the effect of the pep is that *less* people will be able
to use print, *regardless* of how backward compatible Python 3.x is
'allowed' to be.

Edward
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