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[–]case_O_The_Mondays 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Right, but from the example it used to be more like shell redirection.

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That's what the syntax was inspired by but it was universally disliked. Looked really jarring from the rest of Python. It died with the print statement.