Mailman 3 print "Hello World" not working - docs

Aug. 5, 2012

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hello = "This is a rather long string containing\n\
... several lines of text just as you would do in C.\n\
...     Note that whitespace at the beginning of the line is\
...  significant."
print hello
File "<stdin>", line 1
Hello,
  Looks like there has been a format change in a recent version that has not propagated to documentation?

http://docs.python.org/tutorial/introduction.html#strings

has example

hello = "This is a rather long string containing\n\ several lines of text just as you would do in C.\n\ Note that whitespace at the beginning of the line is\ significant." print hello

However, when I try to use that in a plain 3.2.3 install on a PC:
print hello
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
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print (hello)
This is a rather long string containing
several lines of text just as you would do in C.
Note that whitespace at the beginning of the line is significant.
Thank you.

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print "Hello World" not working

Richard Hendricks

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