On 6/8/10 5:44 PM, Deadly Dirk wrote:
I am a total beginner with Python. I am reading a book ("The Quick Python
Book", 2nd edition, by Vernon Ceder) which tells me that print function
takes end="" argument not to print newline character. I tried and here is
what happens:
print(x)
abc
print(x,end="")
File "<stdin>", line 1
print(x,end="")
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
What does the error message mean? I am using Python 2.6.5 on Ubuntu 9.10.
The Quick Python Book is based on Python 3, which is a major upgrade from Python
2.6 and changed some parts of Python's syntax. In particular, it changed the
print statement to a print() function.
You can install Python 3 on Ubuntu using the python3 package.
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an underlying truth."
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