why do we invoke print after importing print_function (in Python 2.6)

Question

To get the 3.0 print function we do the following in Python 2.6:

from __future__ import print_function

But to use the function we invoke pr

Answer 1

For completness, all the currently available features are:

+------------------+-------------+--------------+----------------------------------------------------+
|     feature      | optional in | mandatory in |                       effect                       |
+------------------+-------------+--------------+----------------------------------------------------+
| nested_scopes    | 2.1.0b1     |          2.2 | PEP 227: Statically Nested Scopes                  |
| generators       | 2.2.0a1     |          2.3 | PEP 255: Simple Generators                         |
| division         | 2.2.0a2     |          3.0 | PEP 238: Changing the Division Operator            |
| absolute_import  | 2.5.0a1     |          3.0 | PEP 328: Imports: Multi-Line and Absolute/Relative |
| with_statement   | 2.5.0a1     |          2.6 | PEP 343: The “with” Statement                      |
| print_function   | 2.6.0a2     |          3.0 | PEP 3105: Make print a function                    |
| unicode_literals | 2.6.0a2     |          3.0 | PEP 3112: Bytes literals in Python 3000            |
| generator_stop   | 3.5.0b1     |          3.7 | PEP 479: StopIteration handling inside generators  |
| annotations      | 3.7.0b1     |          4.0 | PEP 563: Postponed evaluation of annotations       |
+------------------+-------------+--------------+----------------------------------------------------+