[Tutor] Print question in IDLE

[Vern Ceder]

I just tried it in Python 3 (both at the interactive prompt and in idle) 
and both places I get:

 >>> "food is very nice" #lets eat
'food is very nice'
 >>>

So it looks like it *should* work. You might copy and paste exactly what 
you get into a post, including the full error traceso that we can see if 
there is some other problem.

 From the error message I (like Alan) wonder if you are typing in the 
">>>" or something like that.

Cheers,
Vern

jims wrote:
> I apologize for asking such a dumb question but I have no prior 
> programming experience and am trying to learn by following examples from 
> a book. And also from the web.
> 
> Simply put here is where I am stuck. (Python version 3.0)
> 
> I type in the example using the comment command:
> 
> (example)  *>>> "food is very nice" #lets eat
> 
> *(I am supposed to get) *food is very nice
> 
> (*What I do get is) SyntaxError:  invalid syntax (<pyshell#3>,  line 1)
> 
> I understand the comment part, no problem but no way can I get past what 
> ever else I am doing wrong.  I assume it's something fundamental but I 
> can't get past this.
> Thanks for any help.
> Jim
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