So what? In the history of Python, there was literally 0 bugs caused by print being a statement. Breaking backwards compatibility for shit like that is amateur hour.
edit: And just to be clear, I'm fine with making print a function for all new code. There were ways that the python community could have accomplished that [and the unicode switch] without breaking the entire language.
edit: And just to be clear, I'm fine with making print a function for all new code. There were ways that the python community could have accomplished that [and the unicode switch] without breaking the entire language.