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Comment by piokuc | Hacker News Reader

There is a bug on the front page:

    >>> print 'Hello, I'm Python!'
      File "<stdin>", line 1
       print 'Hello, I'm Python!'
                       ^
    SyntaxError: invalid syntax
    >>>

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...and a python 2 print keyword instead of the python 3 print function.

There are a bunch of these. There's the Python 2 specific string formatting as well:

    # Input, assignment
    >>> name = input('What is your name?\n')
    >>> print 'Hi, %s.' % name

Why so Python 2 specific? Why not Python 3? : (

However, they also used an example showing that integer division returns a float, which is a behaviour specific to Python 3.

Not completely, this has been available in python 2 for a long time:

>>> from __future__ import division

%-based string interpolation still works in python 3.

Huh, you're right. I could have sworn it was taken out in favor of '.format'; I wonder where I got that idea from...?

I believe they were going to but were met with stern resistance from the community and caved.

I concur. % formatting is extremely cute and I miss it in every other language.

% formatting is not Python 2 specific, plans to remove it from 3 have been deferred.

They had better not. I much prefer it to .format()

Me too; .format() is too verbose.

Nice catch! Fixed and will go live in a bit.

Can you fix this too http://awesomescreenshot.com/0432do7d8f ?

The mouse over CSS is a flattened look which is (IMO) very ugly with the embossed default.

Why not support both 2.x and 3.x syntax?

    print ("Hello, I'm Python!")

Please no, this is confusing.

I'm not really happy with the loop example. There is a sum function precisely for that.

Bug me please! I linked to the repo everywhere else :)

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