The print
used to be a statement in Python 2, but now it became a function that requires parenthesis in Python 3.
Is there anyway to suppress these parenthesis in Python 3? Maybe by re-defining the print function?
So, instead of
print ("Hello stack over flowers")
I could type:
print "Hello stack over flowers"
Although you need a pair of parentheses to print in Python 3, you no longer need a space after print
, because it's a function. So that's only a single extra character.
If you still find typing a single pair of parentheses to be "unnecessarily time-consuming," you can do p = print
and save a few characters that way. Because you can bind new references to functions but not to keywords, you can only do this print
shortcut in Python 3.
Python 2:
>>> p = print
File "<stdin>", line 1
p = print
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Python 3:
>>> p = print
>>> p('hello')
hello
It'll make your code less readable, but you'll save those few characters every time you print something.