[Tutor] PYTHON 3.1

[James Reynolds]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Dipo Elegbede <delegbede at dudupay.com>wrote:

> Python 3.1.1 (r311:74483, Aug 17 2009, 17:02:12) [MSC v.1500 32 bit
> (Intel)] on win32
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> >>> print 'hello'
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax (<pyshell#0>, line 1)
> >>> print ('hello')
> hello
> >>>
>
> the above print is what i came across having installed python 3.0 and
> trying to run the print command.
> with previous versions, a print command takes the form
> print 'parameter'
> and the output is
> parameter
>
> but with this new version it seems you need to put in brackets like:
> print ('hello')
> to get an output like:
> hello
>
> please confirm this is a new syntax for print.
> thank you.
>
> i will put up morte concerns as they arrive.
>
> thanks.
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In python 3K print is a function.

So, print('hello, world') is the correct syntax.

You may find this article helpful:
http://docs.python.org/py3k/whatsnew/3.0.html
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