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Re: Python basic program problem

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Date 2011-06-27 18:19 +1100
Subject Re: Python basic program problem
From Daniel Kluev <dan.kluev@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.439.1309159175.1164.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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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

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Python basic program problem Amaninder Singh <asingh0412@gmail.com> - 2011-06-27 00:05 -0700
  Re: Python basic program problem Noah Hall <enalicho@gmail.com> - 2011-06-27 08:18 +0100
  Re: Python basic program problem Daniel Kluev <dan.kluev@gmail.com> - 2011-06-27 18:19 +1100
  Re: Python basic program problem Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2011-06-27 02:24 -0500
  Re: Python basic program problem Noah Hall <enalicho@gmail.com> - 2011-06-27 22:28 +0100

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