It has optional arguments which make certain things a lot easier and make it much more consistent with the rest of the language.

sep is the separator between arguments, so you can do something like:

    >> print('a','b','c',sep='')
    abc

end is the value at the end of the line (useful, for example, if you want to print without a newline at the end).

file lets you specify a file to print to, so for example you can do file=sys.stderr to print to stderr instead of stdout.