Old Man Yells At Cloud

[Rhodri James]

On 21/09/17 17:31, Chris Angelico wrote:
> For a good while, I was in the same position. But instead of massively
> rewriting everything, all I did was to adjust the material to use
> Py2/Py3 compatible syntax. Adding parens around your print calls won't
> stop it from being Py2-compatible, and it means that the shift to Py3
> becomes a lot easier.

It's compatible syntax, but it doesn't half look weird in Py2.

 >>> x=2
 >>> print("x is", x)
('x is', 2)
 >>>

is very unfriendly to young beginners.  We did consider it, but decided 
it was a non-starter; it was less effort to ignore Py3 entirely.

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Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd