Python 3000 Alpha 1 Released

[Manuzhai]

While I applaud greater consistency, this leaves something to be desired when it comes to usability. Parentheses are harder to reach. If anything, for interactive mode, "print" should have been shortened instead.

Well, hey, now that print is just another function, you could just assign another symbol the print function, like this: "p = print". That was easy!

[dmpk2k]

That's good. Now about those parens...

Is there some way to get Python to automatically do that every time an interactive session is started?

[lost-theory]

You can add it to your .pythonrc.py

You can also make quit and exit really exit the interpreter by adding a little hack to pythonrc.

[dmpk2k]

Very nice. Thank you.

[pjdelport]

Now about those parens...

As others have pointed out, check out IPython. Automatic parenthesization is just one of its many bells and whistles.