> The print statement is a little more convenient in the REPL. IIRC ipython has a feature where you can prepend slash to any function (at the beginning of a li

> The print statement is a little more convenient in the REPL. IIRC ipython has a feature where you can prepend slash to any function (at the beginning of a line) to have parens inserted automatically, ie. In [0]: /print "foo" is executed as print("foo"). There - problem solved, and for all functions, not just one special case. Honestly, the crazy `print >>fileobject, "foo"` syntax is enough of a reason for removing it (print statement) from the language. It was unpythonic and I'm surprised it lasted this long in the language.