[Python-Dev] Replacement for print in Python 3.0 (original) (raw)

Neal Norwitz nnorwitz at gmail.com
Sat Sep 3 05:14:54 CEST 2005

On 9/2/05, skip at pobox.com <skip at pobox.com> wrote:

Nope, but there is a large body of code out there that does use print statements already. Again, I know you're prepared for breakage, but that doesn't necessarily mean a completely blank sheet of paper.

Ideally I very much prefer that print become a function. However, the major backlash has swayed me some, if for no other reason that people are so strongly against changing it.

What if a tool existed that did the conversion? I realize that the tool is unlikely to be perfect, but what if it could do 99.9% of the job? I'm not thinking about just fixing print, but also converting iterkeys/itervalues/iteritems, xrange -> range, raw_input -> input, warning about use of input(), etc.

I'm sure this tool wouldn't be perfect, but if it did most of the work, would that change opinions?

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