Re: Misleading wikipedia article on Python 3?

On 6 Aug, 12:11, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Carsten Haese <cars...@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?

Indeed: practicality beats purity [1]. Uh, wait a moment!

Paul

[1] http://www.python.org/dev/culture/

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