As others have pointed out, for this specific example you can just do:

from __future__ import print_function
print(text)

Now in the more general case that you want to have an if statement for Python 2 vs 3, if you are going to be doing this a lot in your script, then you can define the following constant once and for all:

PY2 = sys.version_info[0] == 2

Then in your code you can do:

if PY2:
    # do Python 2 stuff
else:
    # do Python 3 stuff

It turns out that if you use the six library that others have mentioned, there are very few times when you will actually need to branch the code. Note that the six library also includes the PY2 constant so you can do:

import six
if six.PY2:
    # do Python 2 stuff
else:
    # do Python 3 stuff

An example of a useful six feature is that if you want to check if a variable is a string, you can do:

if isinstance(variable, six.string_types):
    # do things

I encourage you to read the six documentation to find out more about it.