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Re: Python 2.x and 3.x usage survey

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On 01/01/2014 12:38, Steve Hayes wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Jan 2014 22:37:45 +1100, Steven D'Aprano
> <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
>
>> Steve Hayes wrote:
>>
>>> I borrowed a book called "Learning Python" by Lutz and Asher, which is
>>> geared for 2.2/2.3.
>>>
>>> But the version I have in Windows is 3.2, and it seems that even "Hello
>>> World" presents and insurmountable problem.
>>
>> It certainly is not *insurmountable*. Not unless you consider typing
>> brackets ( ) to be an inhumanly difficult task, in which case you might as
>> well give up on being a programmer and take up something easier like brain
>> surgery.
>>
>> # Python 2 version
>> print "Hello World!"
>>
>> # Python 3 version
>> print("Hello World!")
>
> I was thinking or of this:
>
>>>> python g:\work\module1.py
>    File "<stdin>", line 1
>      python g:\work\module1.py
>             ^
>
> Which gave a different error the previous time I did it.
>
> But, hey, it worked from the DOS prompt
>
> C:\Python32>python g:\work\module1.py
> Hello Module World
>
> But hey, don't mind me.
>
> The biggest problem I have is that when something doesn't work, I don't know
> if I have done something stupid, or if it's just an incompatibility of the
> different versions.
>

Almost inevitably if you search for the last line of the error that you 
get you'll find more than enough hits to point you in the right 
direction.  Failing that ask here as we don't bite.  There's also the 
tutor mailing list https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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Python 2.x and 3.x usage survey Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2013-12-30 13:56 -0800
  Re: Python 2.x and 3.x usage survey Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2014-01-01 12:41 +0200
    Re: Python 2.x and 3.x usage survey Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-01 21:52 +1100
    Re: Python 2.x and 3.x usage survey Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-01-01 22:37 +1100
      Re: Python 2.x and 3.x usage survey Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2014-01-01 14:38 +0200
        Re: Python 2.x and 3.x usage survey Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-01 23:39 +1100
        Re: Python 2.x and 3.x usage survey Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-01 12:44 +0000
        Re: Python 2.x and 3.x usage survey David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2014-01-02 01:07 +1100
          Re: Python 2.x and 3.x usage survey Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2014-01-01 19:55 +0200
        Re: Python 2.x and 3.x usage survey Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-01-01 09:32 -0500
    Re: Python 2.x and 3.x usage survey Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-01-01 12:54 -0500
  Re: Python 2.x and 3.x usage survey John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2014-01-10 09:36 -0800
    Re: Python 2.x and 3.x usage survey Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-01-10 12:48 -0500
      Re: Python 2.x and 3.x usage survey John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2014-01-10 11:43 -0800
        Re: Python 2.x and 3.x usage survey MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-01-10 19:53 +0000
        Re: Python 2.x and 3.x usage survey Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-01-10 14:50 -0500
    Re: Python 2.x and 3.x usage survey Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-01-10 10:02 -0800

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