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

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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.

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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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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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