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Alan Gauld alan.gauld at btinternet.com
Sat Sep 7 01:35:13 CEST 2013


On 06/09/13 20:52, Sammy Cornet wrote:
> on my Interpreter windows, as my first attempt, I wrote "hello world"
> but it keep telling me this: SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>   Can you help me please?

Python doesn't understand what "hello world" means.
It's just a value, like 42 or True to python. So python reports a syntax 
error (ie 'grammar' it doesn't understand).

You need to tell Python what to do with your text. I suspect you
wanted to print it so you should type:

print("hello world")

Find a tutorial you like and follow it until you get
the hang of things.

-- 
Alan G
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/



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