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Re:Why Python keeps growing, explained by gary_0 on Friday March 03, 2023 @11:39AM (#35011830)
> Hello world is just `print "Hello, world!"`

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

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Re:Why Python keeps growing, explained by pxc on Friday March 03, 2023 @02:04PM (#35013665)
That's because that issue of the webcomic is like 15 years old. It was true of the version of Python which was current at the time:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6182964/why-is-parenthes...

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Re:Why Python keeps growing, explained by gary_0 on Friday March 03, 2023 @02:34PM (#35013994)
Yes, I know. But some people still have the reflex from Python 2 and feel bitter when the error message says "I know what you want, and I'm not giving it to you."
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