[bufordsharkley]

Removing the print statement is, to me, an extremely frustrating breaking change to make.

If nothing else, I feel that backward compatibility should be given toward's a language's canonical "hello world" example.

[Leynos]

It can't be that difficult to do a one-off `find . -type f -name '*.py' -print0 | xargs -0 grep 'print '`, change the print statements to functions and add `from __future__ import print_function` can it?

[k_bx]

Yeah, this was a very unwise thing to make, at least this could be postponed for later.

[Latty]

What? And make another language breaking version down the line? Better to rip off the plaster in one fell swoop.

[k_bx]

It's better to make multiple breakages one by one than not doing them at all. On a plus side, maybe at some point you'd realize this print statement isn't that important anyway to make thousands of edits all over the world.