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Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 13:42:10 +1100
Subject: Re: Python console rejects an object reference, having made an object with that reference as its name in previous line
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On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Chris Roy-Smith
<chris_roysmith@internode.on.net> wrote:
> and here he uses a python 3.x print syntax which triggers the following
> error message

On the contrary; parens around a single argument will work just fine
in Py2 (they're simply redundant parentheses, in the same way that you
can write "i = (1)" and it's the same as "i = 1"). The syntax error
comes from unindenting without ending the block, as several have
pointed out already.

ChrisA