running python 2 vs 3

[Mark Lawrence]

On 20/03/2014 20:50, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk>:
>
>> On 20/03/2014 20:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>>> I must say, though, that Python3 destroyed "print" forever for me. To
>>> avoid nausea, I write sys.stdout.write() in all Python3 code.
>>
>> Not for me, I was using from __future__ import print_function for
>> years so got used to typing those two extra brackets, plus print very
>> kindly inserts the newlines for me.
>
> That very realization helped me wean myself from "print." Its sole
> raison d'être is the insertion of the newline, which it would be nicer
> to micromanage anyway; that's how it's done in other programming
> languages as well: C, perl, guile, ... (Well, ok, "echo" is the
> exception.)
>
>
> Marko
>

The end keyword argument to the print function defaults to newline but 
you can make it anything you like, see 
http://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#print

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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