Syntax problem - cannot solve it by myself

[Deadly Dirk]

I am a total beginner with Python. I am reading a book ("The Quick Python 
Book", 2nd edition, by Vernon Ceder) which tells me that print function 
takes end="" argument not to print newline character. I tried and here is 
what happens:

>>> print(x)
abc
>>> print(x,end="")
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    print(x,end="")
               ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> 

What does the error message mean? I am using Python 2.6.5 on Ubuntu 9.10. 


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