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> This is a terrible idea, FWIW. Please don't do this.

Why not? It's a simple pragmatic solution that fixes an actual problem at essentially no cost to CPython.

You're right of course that Cython shouldn't set tp_print to 0 on Python 3. But I don't think that's a relevant argument.