On Aug 18, 4:01 pm, "Jan Kaliszewski" <z...@chopin.edu.pl> wrote: > Dnia 18-08-2009 o 22:42:59 Robert Dailey <rcdai...@gmail.com> napisał(a): > > > I see what you're saying now. However, why am I able to use print as a > > function in general-purpose code in my Python 2.6 script, like so: > > > def SomeFunction(): > > print( "Hello World" ) > > > But, I am not able to do this: > > > SomeFunction = lambda: print( "Hello World" ) > > > ?????? > > Because (unless you do 'from __future__ import print_function' in Py2.6) > it's statement, not a functions. In Python you can put any expression > in parentheses -- it's useful for wraping long lines but changes nothing > semantically (unless you add a comma -- then you create a tuple, even > without parentheses, but it'a another story...). > > *j > > -- > Jan Kaliszewski (zuo) <z...@chopin.edu.pl>
Ah, I see now. I completely fooled myself. This whole time I thought Python 2.6 was updated to work with both forms of print by default as a convenience, but still maintain the backwards compatibility. I understand the situation now. Thanks to everyone for the help. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
