As far as I can tell, you do not. As it turns out, the print statement works with parentheses in Python 2.7, so long as you give it one argument to output.

Feel free to test this for yourself. I did so using Python 2.5, 2.6, & 2.7. For any of these versions, go to interactive Python mode and just try a simple print statement:

    print "Hello, World!"
    print("Hello, World!")

These were identical in output. I also tested the Python script with 2.7, and it also works with these changes.

Note that while print looks like a function, it is not. You can change print to be a function and not a statement using the from-future import in Python 2.6 and up. While this can be done, there is not a need to. For more details, [see here](https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/2.6.html#pep-3105).