Re: Misleading wikipedia article on Python 3?

On 2007-08-06, Neil Cerutti <horpner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2007-08-06, Paul Rubin <http> wrote:
Carsten Haese <carsten@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
For instance, if you never use print statements in your code,
you won't notice that print is becoming a function. If you
do, you'll have to make appropriate accommodations.

Why on earth did they make this change? It just seems
gratuitous. Is the assert statement also being changed? Are
they going to update all the docs that say that the yield
statement works like the print statement?

From the footnotes of PEP 3100:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-September/056154.html
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3105

Incidentally, from the second link I find it shocking that the
keyword parameter "file" shadows a builtin. It seems to endorse a
bad practice.

--
Neil Cerutti
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