Re: New User-Need-Help

From	John Gordon <gordon@panix.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: New User-Need-Help
Date	2013-02-15 23:14 +0000
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In <mailman.1855.1360969699.2939.python-list@python.org> Deborah Piotrowski <spiceninja4u@gmail.com> writes:

> print "Game Over"
> input("\n\nPress the Enter Key to Exit")
> Syntax Error: Invalid Syntax

You're probably using Python version 3, but the book was written for 
version 2.  The print statement is handled a bit differently in version 3.

Change your print statement to look like this:

    print("Game Over")

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Re: New User-Need-Help Deborah Piotrowski <spiceninja4u@gmail.com> - 2013-02-15 16:08 -0700
  Re: New User-Need-Help John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2013-02-15 23:14 +0000

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