Pep 3105: the end of print?

[Peter Otten]

Edward K Ream wrote:

>> There is also the 2to3 converter. The aim is that this will be
> effective enough that coders should be able to maintain a 2.X (2.6 ?)
> codebase, run it through 2to3 and have the result run unchanged on
> Python 3. That way there will be no need to maintain two code bases.
> 
> I have offered a proof that the converter must change print to print2 (or
> some other name) in order to maintain a common code base.  How much
> clearer
> can I be?  If a common code base is desired, it *is* the end of print

There could be something like

from __future__ import print_function

to remove the print keyword in 2.x.

Peter