• driving_crooner
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    18
    ·
    2 days ago

    Imo is more intuitive the need of () in print,like is a function like any other, why would not use ()?

    • Smoogs@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      18 hours ago

      If you developed it to not have brackets for the first one or two decades. Especially if there’s no possible way to easily edit it. You’re a psychopath to not consider this.

      • thebestaquaman@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        17 hours ago

        That’s what major versions are for - breaking changes. Regardless, you should probably be able to fix this with some regex hackery. Something along the lines of

        new_file_content = re.sub(r'(?<=\bprint)(\s+)(?!\()', '(', old_file_content)
        new_file_content = re.sub(r'(print\(.*?)(\n|$)', r'\1)', new_file_content)
        

        should do the trick.