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Nathan Wieters
1,415 PointsSince when does there need to be parentheses at the end of the print statement in python????
I am fairly new but have been working in python for a few weeks now... I havnt been using the parentheses this whole time and now its a syntax error in workspaces? tsup with that?
5 Answers
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 PointsSince Python 3
Nathan Wieters
1,415 Pointsoooohhhhhhhh shoots, duh, thanks
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 PointsHaha, yeah, you must be coming from Python 2.x. Me too. In Python 3, print is a function.
Nathan Wieters
1,415 PointsDo you know why they changed that? print is used a lot, it seems weird they added 2 extra key strokes on it. What is the benefit of changing it to a function??
Ricky Catron
13,023 PointsThis page has a lot of reasons for why I should have been changed.
Goodluck! --Ricky
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 PointsYeah, you're right, Python 3 has many new changes and features that are NOT backward compatible with Python 2, unless you do some extra work.
There's a way to make your print cross-compatible with both Python 2 & 3.
from __future__ import print_function
once you has this import statement in your py file, your print function will behave exactly the same in both python 2 & 3.