print 'hello'
f = open(file, 'w')
print>>f, 'world'
print(somestring, file=someopenfile)Print chevron is super awful, it's unreadable, hard to remember and difficult to search for.
The print function was a welcome improvement: it's not a statement (so can be used in a lambda, no need to fall back to sys.stdout.write), it doesn't use weird-ass syntax to redirect or suppress the final newline and it's more extensible (e.g. "end" or "flush" kwargs would have been… challenging to add to the keyword version)
But less obvious and readable, which is anti pythonic. If you want "power" over readability, there is ruby/perl.
fprint = lambda string: print(string, file=somefile)
that little chevron trick is bad imo
open my $file, '>', 'hello';
print{$file} "Hello";