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Right, you hear a lot of griping about moving from Python 2 to 3 but I personally didn't have as much trouble as expected. Some of my projects just worked. One small tip I don't think they mentioned. Start using the logging module instead of print and it will eliminate one class of potential issues.

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I've heard people complain about print being a function now more than a hand full of times and my response is always "are you really using print that much in your code base?"

You still use it in debuggers and in the REPL. Using it seldom makes it harder to relearn the muscle memory, and only hitting it when you're debugging makes it more likely that you're already frustrated when it happens.

This is what I encourage all of our team to do, it just seems like a no brainer. Having stray "testing" strings pop up in our logs without any source is hella annoying.

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