[emidln]

Err, what? Maybe you mean that an arbitrary distinction between statements and expressions makes the language trickier to learn than it otherwise might be. But once you have that distinction, print being a function vs a statement isn't trickier one way or the other.

[Dylan16807]

Print fits much better with python's functions than its statements. I think it is notably tricker if the most common piece of code you pass arguments to has no parentheses, but everything else does.