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@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ its least useful properties.
Remember, you can never know for sure what names a module exports, so either
take what you need --- ``from module import name1, name2``, or keep them in the
-module and access on a per-need basis --- ``import module;print module.name``.
+module and access on a per-need basis --- ``import module; print(module.name)``.
When It Is Just Fine
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ The following is a very popular anti-idiom ::
def get_status(file):
if not os.path.exists(file):
- print "file not found"
+ print("file not found")
sys.exit(1)
return open(file).readline()
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ Here is a better way to do it. ::
try:
return open(file).readline()
except (IOError, OSError):
- print "file not found"
+ print("file not found")
sys.exit(1)
In this version, \*either\* the file gets opened and the line is read (so it
@@ -264,12 +264,13 @@ More useful functions in :mod:`os.path`: :func:`basename`, :func:`dirname` and
There are also many useful builtin functions people seem not to be aware of for
some reason: :func:`min` and :func:`max` can find the minimum/maximum of any
sequence with comparable semantics, for example, yet many people write their own
-:func:`max`/:func:`min`. Another highly useful function is :func:`reduce`. A
-classical use of :func:`reduce` is something like ::
+:func:`max`/:func:`min`. Another highly useful function is
+:func:`functools.reduce`. A classical use of :func:`reduce` is something like
+::
- import sys, operator
+ import sys, operator, functools
nums = map(float, sys.argv[1:])
- print reduce(operator.add, nums)/len(nums)
+ print(functools.reduce(operator.add, nums) / len(nums))
This cute little script prints the average of all numbers given on the command
line. The :func:`reduce` adds up all the numbers, and the rest is just some