Thanks Bearophile. I should have used a tutorial for Python 3.0
I was reading tutorial for Python 2.5 On Dec 25, 11:58 pm, bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote: > On Dec 25, 7:53 pm, jsm4...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > IDLE 3.0>>> print "hello" > > > SyntaxError: invalid syntax (<pyshell#0>, line 1)>>> 3+3 > > 6 > > >>> var = 4 > > >>> var = var*4 > > >>> print var > > > SyntaxError: invalid syntax (<pyshell#5>, line 1) > > > Any idea on why I am getting this error. > > I have just started learning python and I am stuck at first thing > > itself. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > Thanks, > > Jeetu Sahil > > The print of Python3 needs parentheses: > > print(var) > > Older Python versions are different. > > Bye, > bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
