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On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 09:07:35 +0530, Aloke Ghosh <akghosh3@gmail.com>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:

> 
> I feel the error is in Capital P in print .
> However the error indicated with "*^*"
> hints at quote at the end of the line.
>
	Yes... Python is case sensitive, and the keyword/statement (in
versions <3.x) or standard function (in 3.x) uses

		print

	The ^ at the end of the line essentially points out where Python
gave up trying to turn the statement into something valid. Consider

	Print = "This is a string"
or
	Print("This is a string")
to
	Print "This is a string"

	The first is valid -- "Print" is a user name being bound to a
string. The second implies a user procedure named "Print" being called
with one argument. The third line can not be decoded into anything valid
-- was it supposed to be a function call missing () or a binding missing
the =
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