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"Very trivial, and the change in the print-syntax is probably the most widely known change, but still it is worth mentioning: Python 2's print function doesn't require the parantheses for invoking the print function (it wouldn't choke on them). \n", "Very trivial, and the change in the print-syntax is probably the most widely known change, but still it is worth mentioning: Python 2's print statement has been replaced by the `print()` function, meaning that we have to wrap the object that we want to print in parantheses. \n",
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"Printing \"Hello, World\" above via Python 2 looked quite \"normal\". However, if we have multiple objects inside the parantheses, we will create a tuple, since `print` is a \"statement\" in Python 2, not a function call."
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