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		amenod on April 20, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2 I still occasionally mistype `print s`. RIP, python2, you will be missed. And a big thank you to all the contributers who have kept it alive for so long!

Andrew_nenakhov on April 20, 2020 [–]

I still feel very wrong whenever I have to use print(), it was so much better without ()

scoot_718 on April 21, 2020 | [–]

Agreed. It was so less painful to add and remove for debugging. Which is it's only real use-case.

amenod on April 21, 2020 | | [–]

Yes - it is incredible how big a deal this is. I never would have thought a few characters would mean so much to me. Ah well... :)

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