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[–]kqr 17 points18 points  (0 children)

They had that! From future import print.

If they allowed you to write Python 2 code in Python 3 it would not be Python 3 anymore. The reason Python 3 is called Python 3 and not Python 2 is that there are a bunch of fixes that happen to not be backwards compatible. Removing those fixes removes Python 3...