from past import print_statement

Question

Is there some equivalent to from __future__ import print_function that forward-ports the print statement from python 2.x?

An answer involving some ipython magic that lets me print without need of surrounding parens during prototyping is also acceptable.

Answer 1

Some suggestion for IPython

%autocall
print "Hi"

Define magic with autocall on

from IPython.core.magic import register_line_magic
@register_line_magic
def p(line):
    print(line)
p "Hi"

Define magic with autocall off

from IPython.core.magic import register_line_magic
@register_line_magic
def p(line):
    print(eval(line))
%p "Again"

You could create a .config/ipython/profile_default/startup/autoprint.py file for you line magic functions.