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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Hi, </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Trying to learn yet another scripting language.  </p><p class="MsoNormal">
Referring to tutorial on <a href="http://docs.python.org">docs.python.org</a>.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Python 3.2.2 installed on Windows7.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Using:</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;">13:25:39.64 C:\Work&gt;python</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;">Python 3.2.2 (default, Sep  4 2011, 09:07:29) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;">Type &quot;help&quot;, &quot;copyright&quot;, &quot;credits&quot; or &quot;license&quot; for more information.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">In the tutorial on strings demonstrating surrounding a text string with “””:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid #AACC99 1.0pt;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #AACC99 1.0pt;border-right:none;padding:4.0pt 0in 4.0pt 0in;background:#EEFFCC"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11.25pt;background:#EEFFCC;border:none;padding:0in">
<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;;color:#007020;background:#FBE54E">print</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;;color:#333333;background:#FBE54E"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;;color:#4070A0;background:#FBE54E">&quot;&quot;&quot;</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;;color:#333333;background:#FBE54E"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11.25pt;background:#EEFFCC;border:none;padding:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;;color:#4070A0;background:#FBE54E">Usage: thingy [OPTIONS]</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;;color:#333333;background:#FBE54E"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11.25pt;background:#EEFFCC;border:none;padding:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;;color:#4070A0;background:#FBE54E">     -h                        Display this usage message</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;;color:#333333;background:#FBE54E"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11.25pt;background:#EEFFCC;border:none;padding:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;;color:#4070A0;background:#FBE54E">     -H hostname               Hostname to connect to</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;;color:#333333;background:#FBE54E"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11.25pt;background:#EEFFCC;border:none;padding:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;;color:#4070A0;background:#FBE54E">&quot;&quot;&quot;</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;;color:#333333;background:#FBE54E"></span></p>
</div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Python handles this differently than the tutorial suggests:</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;">&gt;&gt;&gt; print &quot;&quot;&quot;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;">... Usage: thingy [OPTIONS]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;">...      -h                    Display this usage message</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;">...      -H hostname           Hostname to connect to</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;">... &quot;&quot;&quot;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;">  File &quot;&lt;stdin&gt;&quot;, line 5</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;">    &quot;&quot;&quot;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;">      ^</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;">SyntaxError: invalid syntax</span></p>
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