"print" statement vs function for Sage-py3
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
    
        
        asked 6 years ago  
 
 dsejas gravatar image  
 
 
 
 
    
        
        updated 5 years ago  
 
 FrédéricC gravatar image  
 
 
 
 
 
With the upcoming migration of Sage from Python2 to Python3, I was wondering if Sage's default new behavior will be the current print statement (e.g., print 'hello') or will it change to Python3's print command (e.g., print('hello')).
 
In case of a change from the current behavior, will there be a way to keep backwards compatibility for code written Python2-style?
 
Thanks for your answers!
 
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There is no resolution about this with respect to user code. It has been discussed at https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/23674.
John Palmieri gravatar imageJohn Palmieri (
    
        6 years ago
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My advice: start using python3 print right now.
FrédéricC gravatar imageFrédéricC (
    
        6 years ago
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Personally, I think we should change to using the print function by default on Python 2 as well, but it's hard to make that change without at least slightly breaking users' code.  Perhaps we could start issuing a warning  and tell users that they should add from __future__ import print_function to their sage startup profiles.
Iguananaut gravatar imageIguananaut (
    
        6 years ago
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