Regarding removing print statements, I think it is important to remove prints that happen all the time, such as "got a text message from this person".  But I think that print statements that happen under error conditions are important, because we can tell where code is breaking by looking at sysou.  It's also not important to not bury exceptions, because that will make everything appear like it's working fine when things are actually breaking.
In this case I think it's correct to remove it because it's not really an error.  Just wanted to make the general comment.