On Nov 30, 2007 11:18 AM, Peter Decker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Nov 30, 2007 1:19 AM, Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > You also have a couple of instances of:
> > print("Error Squeezing %s...")
> >
> > The parentheses serve no purpose here, and are unidiomatic.
>
> I thought that with the eventual dropping of 'print' as a statement in
> Python 3, that writing it this way (as if it were a print function) is
> preferred, since that will be one fewer thing to convert.
>
No, writing this way will confound the 2to3 tool. Just try for
yourself. You would have to write print(something) all the time and
disable the fix_print convertion. It is easier and safer to write the
common 2.Xish way and let 2to3 do the work.
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