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Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2015 14:35:46 -0400
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On 7/30/2015 9:22 PM, Dwight GoldWinde wrote:
> Please help.
>
> I am running Python 3.4 on my Mac mini, OS X 10.10.2, using Coderunner =
2
> as my editor.
>
> Here=E2=80=99s the code:
> #!/usr/bin/env python3
> word =3D (input('Enter a word =E2=80=98))

The outer parentheses are not needed.
Ditto to the other comments, especially about not using html and the=20
unicode quote that causes SyntaxError.

--=20
Terry Jan Reedy