Invalid syntax error

Vlastimil Brom vlastimil.brom at gmail.com
Sat Mar 10 07:54:02 EST 2012


2012/3/10 sl33k <ahsanbagwan at gmail.com>:
> I'm trying project euler problem 3 and I've hit the wall with this
> error. What could be the problem here?
>
>  l=[]
>>>> num=600851475143
>>>> i=1
>>>> while i<=num:
> ...     if num%i==0:
> ...         l.append(i)
> ...     i+=1
> ... print max(l)
>  File "<stdin>", line 5
>    print max(l)
>        ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
>
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Hi,
if you are using python 3, you'd (most likely) need to adapt the code
written for python 2.
see:
http://docs.python.org/py3k/whatsnew/3.0.html#print-is-a-function

hth,
 vbr



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