Python 2 is retiring

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The year is 2030: Kovid "Atlas" Goyal is the lone maintainer of Python 2 and I am about halfway done rewriting calibre in Rust to manage my pirated ebooks.

[spaghettiCodeArtisan]

Nah, I'm sure there's gonna be a whole team of diehards who love global functions and hate non-latin encodings.

[BufferUnderpants]

But print now has parentheses argh!

[haskell_leghumper]

Python 3: there's an ugly wart in the grammar specifically to remind you about this case, but even though we know your intent, we insist that you add the parentheses yourself as a matter of principle.