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| From | Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: Python 2.x and 3.x usage survey |
| Date | 2014-01-01 12:54 -0500 |
| Organization | IISS Elusive Unicorn |
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On Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:41:44 +0200, Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net>
declaimed the following:
>
>But the version I have in Windows is 3.2, and it seems that even "Hello World"
>presents and insurmountable problem.
>
>Eventually I discovered that one of the differences bytween 2.x and 3.x is
>that the former has "print" and the latter has "print()" but weven using that
>it tells me it cant find the PRN device or something.
>
>I've got 2.x on Linux, so I booted into that and it seemed to work there, but
>it seems that the differences between the versions are not trivial.
>
>So perhaps I should just try to install 2.x in Windows, and learn that.
Off hand I suspect you didn't follow the same process on Linux as you
did on Windows.
But as you didn't cut&paste the exact code and invocation/error message
we have to guess.
-=-=-=-=-
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\Wulfraed\Documents>print("hello lunar")
Unable to initialize device PRN
C:\Users\Wulfraed\Documents>print "hello moon"
Unable to initialize device PRN
C:\Users\Wulfraed\Documents>python
ActivePython 2.7.2.5 (ActiveState Software Inc.) based on
Python 2.7.2 (default, Jun 24 2011, 12:22:14) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)]
on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> print("hello lunar")
hello lunar
>>> print "hello moon"
hello moon
>>> ^Z
C:\Users\Wulfraed\Documents>
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--
Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN
wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/
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