On 2017-09-20 17:06, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 10:08:18 +1000, Steve D'Aprano
> <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> declaimed the following:
>
>> For what its worth: from Python 3.5 (I think) onwards the error you get is
>> customized:
>>
>> py> print 1
>> File "<stdin>", line 1
>> print 1
>> ^
>> SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'
>>
>
> So... "print" (the function") is still a special case for the
> interpreter...
>
Thankfully just the interpreter, and not you or me.
Also, print is not alone in this regard:
Python 3.6.0 |Continuum Analytics, Inc.| (default, Dec 23 2016, 12:22:00)
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-1)] on linux
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>>> print 1
File "<stdin>", line 1
print 1
^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'
>>> exec 'print 1'
File "<stdin>", line 1
exec 'print 1'
^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'exec'
>>> exec('print 1')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "<string>", line 1
print 1
^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'
>>>
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