What is the advantage of the new print function in Python 3.x over the Python 2 print statement?

Question

I\'ve heard several times that print being a function (3.x) is better than it being a statement (2.x). But why?

I was a fan of it being a statement mainly because it

Answer 1

Everything from Jochen's answer and Sven's answer, plus:

You can use print() it in places where you can't use print, such as:

[print(x) for x in range(10)]