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Comment by timw6n | Hacker News Reader

...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.