2to3 fails on very simple script

[Skaperen]

That's already a valid python3 file.  So there isn't any conversion that needs to take place.

in python 2 it is a print statement that prints an empty tuple   so what if python3 can run it as-is   it does something different with it (prints an empty line)   no i did not read the docs of 2to3 so i was not aware of cases like this that it cannot figure out   let's see if you can write python 3 code that does what this code does in python 2 (it prints an empty tuple)   would you cheat and use the string '()'   i might