• Smoogs@lemmy.world
    89·
    2 months ago

    “Print needs ()”

    Oh fuck off. years of code that cannot be easily redone in ANY editor. Whoever OCDd that into python 3 needs to have their asshole kicked up into their mouth.

      • Smoogs@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        If you developed it to not have brackets for the first one or two decades. Especially if there’s no possible way to easily edit it. You’re a psychopath to not consider this.

        • thebestaquaman@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 months ago

          That’s what major versions are for - breaking changes. Regardless, you should probably be able to fix this with some regex hackery. Something along the lines of

          new_file_content = re.sub(r'(?<=\bprint)(\s+)(?!\()', '(', old_file_content)
new_file_content = re.sub(r'(print\(.*?)(\n|$)', r'\1)', new_file_content)

          should do the trick.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
      12·
      2 months ago

      why would it not have brackets? i detest syntax that is only applicable to a handful of situations and has to be specifically memorized separately from how every other part of the language works.

      • Smoogs@lemmy.world
        11·
        2 months ago

        Not after 10 years of it not having brackets. And providing no editing ability to change it as a macro. That’s just cruel and inhumane and psychopathic.

    • janAkali@lemmy.oneEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Meanwhile Nim:

      echo "I am still worthy"

      let a = r"I hate the ugly '\' at the end of " &
         "multiline statements"

      for x in 0..9:
  if x == 6: echo x

echo x # this is error in Nim, but not in python. Insane!

      assert false + 1 # this is an error (python devs in shambles)
assert true - 1 # see above

      Thanks for coming to my Ted-talk.
      More here: Nim for Python Programmers