printing - Python 3 print without parenthesis

Question

The print used to be a statement in Python 2, but now it became a function that requires parenthesis in Python 3.

Is there anyway to suppress these parenthesis in Python 3? Maybe by re-defining the print function?

So, instead of

print ("Hello stack over flowers")

I could type:

print "Hello stack over flowers"

Answer 1

Although you need a pair of parentheses to print in Python 3, you no longer need a space after print, because it's a function. So that's only a single extra character.

If you still find typing a single pair of parentheses to be "unnecessarily time-consuming," you can do p = print and save a few characters that way. Because you can bind new references to functions but not to keywords, you can only do this print shortcut in Python 3.

Python 2:

>>> p = print
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    p = print
            ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Python 3:

>>> p = print
>>> p('hello')
hello

It'll make your code less readable, but you'll save those few characters every time you print something.