I strongly dislike Python 3

[Lie Ryan]

On 07/01/10 01:42, Michele Simionato wrote:
> On Jun 30, 2:52 pm, Lie Ryan <lie.1... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 06/27/10 11:24, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>
>>>>> Producing print function takes a little bit more effort than producing a
>>>>> print statement.
>>
>>> (1) The main use-cases for print are quick (and usually dirty) scripts,
>>> interactive use, and as a debugging aid.
>>
>> That is precisely how the quick-and-dirty syntax of print statement can
>> be justified. While debugging, you'll need to be able to quickly add and
>> delete prints here and there, and the extra parens can quickly become
>> irritating.
> 
> Actually when debugging I use pdb which uses "p" (no parens) for
> printing, so having
> print or print() would not make any difference for me.

You mean I have to start a full-blown debugger to figure out the value
of a variable? No thanks, debugger has its use for stepping through
program, but not when printing values is sufficient.