If you want to see some nice examples of PEP 617's (The new PEG Parser) potential, see the draft of https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0622/ https://www.python

If you want to see some nice examples of PEP 617's (The new PEG Parser) potential, see the draft of https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0622/ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0622/ But `print 'hi world'` This would really spoil one of the nice consistency things python 3 brought. Callables without parenthesis to distinguish the arguments. Can you imagine what this is going to do to readability on open source projects? This was back in June, and probably for the sake of conversation. It got my (and a lot of others) attention, though. If that was the case, mission accomplished. I'm all for the new parser enabled in Python 3.9 (and switched on by default in 3.10): https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0617/ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0617/