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I redid the meme with what hurts me (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by MashedTech to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Smoogs 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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 3 points 3 months 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.