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Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:19:32 +1100
Subject: Re: Python basic program problem
From: Daniel Kluev <dan.kluev@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Amaninder Singh <asingh0412@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> print "this is a test"
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Most likely, you are running python 3.x, while reading python 2.x book.
In python 3.x print is now ordinary function,

>>> print('hello world')
hello world


In future, please include full tracebacks and python version info.

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With best regards,
Daniel Kluev