On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Steve Hayes <hayes...@telkomsa.net> wrote: >>Some say 'Python 3 is the future, use it for everything now' and other >>say 'Python 3 is the future but you can't do everything in it now so >>use Python 2'. > > Yes, that made me more or less abandon my attempt to learn Python. > > I had Python 3 on my computer (came on one of those freebie discs you get with > magazines, I think) and my son had a book on it, so I thought with the program > and the instructions I should be able to learn something. > > It took me a week, with some help from this forum, to get the Print statement > to work.
If your book and your interpreter didn't match, then that's a problem, just as if you were working with different versions of any other software. (Can you imagine reading through a Microsoft Excel tutorial and trying to do the exercises in a different version of Excel?) The print statement wouldn't work because there isn't one; the print *function* will work quite happily, though. All you need is for someone to explain it to you as a function, and you'll be fine. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
