[$] The (non-)return of the Python print statement

In what may have seemed like an April Fool'sDay joke to some, Python creator Guido van Rossum recently floatedthe idea of bringing back the print statement-several months afterPython 2, which had such a statement, reached its end of life. In fact, VanRossum acknowledged that readers of his message to the python-ideas mailinglist might be checking the date: "No, it's not April 1st." Hewas serious about the idea-at least if others were interested in having thefeature-but he withdrew it fairly quickly when it became clear that therewere few takers. The main reason he brought it up is interesting, though:the new parser for CPython makes iteasy to bring back print from Python 2 (and before).