[Python-Dev] Python 3 as a Default in Linux Distros

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Jul 25 01:04:33 CEST 2013


Chris Angelico wrote:
>>>>print "Hello, world!"
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> 
> Is it safe
> to presume that it's more likely a syntax error will come from an
> interpreter version mismatch than a code bug?

Maybe look at sys.args[0], and if it ends in "python" with
no version number, add something to the error message about
possibly using the wrong version?

-- 
Greg


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