On 01/01/2014 12:38, Steve Hayes wrote:
On Wed, 01 Jan 2014 22:37:45 +1100, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
Steve Hayes wrote:
I borrowed a book called "Learning Python" by Lutz and Asher, which is
geared for 2.2/2.3.
But the version I have in Windows is 3.2, and it seems that even "Hello
World" presents and insurmountable problem.
It certainly is not *insurmountable*. Not unless you consider typing
brackets ( ) to be an inhumanly difficult task, in which case you might as
well give up on being a programmer and take up something easier like brain
surgery.
# Python 2 version
print "Hello World!"
# Python 3 version
print("Hello World!")
I was thinking or of this:
python g:\work\module1.py
File "<stdin>", line 1
python g:\work\module1.py
^
Which gave a different error the previous time I did it.
But, hey, it worked from the DOS prompt
C:\Python32>python g:\work\module1.py
Hello Module World
But hey, don't mind me.
The biggest problem I have is that when something doesn't work, I don't know
if I have done something stupid, or if it's just an incompatibility of the
different versions.
Almost inevitably if you search for the last line of the error that you
get you'll find more than enough hits to point you in the right
direction. Failing that ask here as we don't bite. There's also the
tutor mailing list https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
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