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Re:Bringing the print statement back by coldtea on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @05:13PM (#23837979)
Yeah, generally please second-guess me Python, like my old pal Clippy did, what could possibly go wrong?
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Re:Bringing the print statement back by confeit on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @05:55PM (#23838468)
> You're flying! How?

> Python! I learned it last night! Everything is so simple! Hello world is just: print "Hello, world!"

> SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print("Hello, world!")?

> I dunno... dynamic typing? Whitespace?

> Come join us! Programming is fun again! It's a whole new world up here!

> But how are you flying?

> I just typed: imports antigravity as ag

> TypeError: imports() takes 2 positional arguments but 3 were given

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Re:Bringing the print statement back by lucb1e on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @09:42PM (#23840286)
From https://xkcd.com/353/

I'm not sure whether to take this as an in-joke (knowing the reference is part of the fun) or poor attribution (credits should be given where they're due).

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