[Tutor] Can't even get hello to work???!!

[Emile van Sebille]

On 12/15/2010 9:56 AM Alan Gauld said...
>
> "Khalid Akram" <KAkram at efinancialCareers.com> wrote
>
>> I'm using Python 3.1.3 on Windows XP (using Python Shell).
>> This is what I am trying:
>>
>> print 'hello'
>> ...
>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
>> What could possibly be wrong?
>
> You are using a Python v3 interpreter but a Python v2 tutorial.
> Python v3 has several new features which are not backward compatible
> with v2.


Actually, "the print statement is deprecated" ought not be out of reach. 
  Invalidating every existing python book's first chapter without bias 
is unfortunate.

Emile



>
> Try
>
> print( 'hello' )
>
> You can either downgrade Python to v2 and follow your tutorial
> or find a v3 tutorial. (If you can already program just use the official
> one on the Python web site or if you are a new programmer you
> might like to try mine :-)
>