Hello http://docs.python.org/ contains the documentation for Python 2.6, as stated on the front page. You can find a link to the doc for 3.1 on the left sidebar of the same page, it’s http://docs.python.org/py3k/ It’s normal that u'Hello' does not work with 3.x, the syntax is now just 'Hello'. There are docs about migrating from 2.x to 3.x that highlight that. Regards