"python -3" not working as expected

Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch bj_666 at gmx.net
Thu Jan 8 11:26:55 EST 2009


On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:38:53 +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote:

> [Python 2.6.1]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> to test existing Python code, I ran "python -3" ("warn about Python 3.x
> incompatibilities") against a test file that only contains "print
> 'test'".
> 
> Unfortunately I saw no warnings about print becoming a function in
> Python 3 ("print()"). Where is the problem?

There is no problem.  ``print``\s are handled fine by the 2to3.py 
script.  The option warns about stuff that is not easily automatically 
converted.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch



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