If you’re using an external install of Python, you’ll probably notice that the print statement doesn’t work in Softimage 2013. That’s because Softimage 2013 was compiled with Visual C++ 2010, and Python wasn’t.

We recompiled the built-in Python that ships with Softimage 2012, so if you use that Python, the print statement works.

Workaround courtesy of Jo benayoun:

import sys
class STDOutHook(object):
	def __init__(self):
		pass
	def write(self, data):
		# py engine adds a newline at the end of the data except if
		# the statement was ended by a comma.
		data = "" if data == "\n" else data

		if data != "":
			Application.LogMessage(data)
		return None

sys.stdout = STDOutHook()

print "Hello"
print "\n"       # wont work due to the workaround
print "World",

I found this same workaround by googling “python print redirect stdout”. For example, here.