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Python

Daron Anderson
Daron Anderson
2,567 Points
Posted by Daron Anderson
Daron Anderson
2,567 Points

Why do you need parenthesis now for python print statments? It says in three it was switched to a function????

Yea I would like to know the professional way to write the statements or functions if thats what they are now?

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,318 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,318 Points

Nine years ago in Python version 2, "print" was a statement keyword. But in Python 3, it was changed to a function.

So like any function, when you invoke it, you put parentheses after its name, and then place all the arguments inside the parentheses, separated by commas.

All of the courses here are based on Python 3, so the examples shown will all use "print" consistently as a function.