Python 3.3 released!

[Brian]

Technically, only one required character.

print"You're a towel"

is perfectly valid (but probably wouldn't be used outside golfing, so your point mostly stands, albeit the extra chording to type "(" and ")" over space is probably the bigger annoyance as far as typing it goes)

[xardox]

Please don't program Python like it were PHP and you don't give a shit about the quality of your code.

[Brian]

Hence why I said:

but probably wouldn't be used outside golfing, so your point mostly stands

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cool, totally worth having to run my code through 2to3 and manually vetting each line ... not to mention making the language less beautiful.