I strongly dislike Python 3

Paul Rubin no.email at nospam.invalid
Sat Jun 26 20:02:32 EDT 2010


Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> writes:
> Having completely switched from 'printf(' to 'print ', I have had a
> bit of a problem switching back to 'print('. It is my single largest
> source of typos. But a decent system that puts me at the site of
> syntax errors alleviates this. Logic bugs are a much bigger problem.

I tend to print a lot of tracing messages in my programs, in the form

   print (x, y, z)

expecting to print the tuple (x,y,z) in a form that I can read back
into an analysis program.  That's going to break without throwing
any syntax errors if I ever switch to Python 3.



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