Absolute beginner

Simon Brunning simon at brunningonline.net
Wed Dec 30 07:00:26 EST 2009


2009/12/30  <lucbonne at hotmail.com>:

> At a dos-prompt :
>
> Python 3.1.1 (r311:74483, Aug 17 2009, 17:02:12) [MSC v.1500 32 bit
> (Intel)] on
> win32
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> print "Hello"
>  File "<stdin>", line 1
>    print "Hello"
>                ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax

You are using Python 2 syntax, but a Python 3 interpreter. So, either
download an earlier version of Python, or use a tutorial which covers
Python 3.

Rather unlucky timing, really - Python 3 is the first non-trivially
backward incompatible version for a very long time - at least a decade
and a half.

-- 
Cheers,
Simon B.



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