Syntax Error

[Thomas L. Shinnick]

At 11:39 PM 3/18/2011, Manatee wrote:
>I hope this is the place to post this question. I am a really new
>pythonista. I am studying Tkinter and when I run this basic code, I
>get  a syntax error on line 20,  print "hi there, everyone". Its a
>simple print line, but I can't see the problem. I am using Python
>2.71, gVim for an editor, and a console window to execute the program.
>Here is the link to the website that I am trying to follow:
>
>http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/hello-again.htm
>
>Thanks for any help.

No help, really, but copy-n-paste of the below ran fine first time on 
2.7 install on Win7.  Maybe accidental special characters in source 
file?  How about you also try copy-n-paste from your email?  Who knows....  :-)

># File: hello2.py
>
>from Tkinter import *
>
>class App:
>
>     def __init__(self, master):
>
>         frame = Frame(master)
>         frame.pack()
>
>         self.button = Button(frame, text="QUIT", fg="red",
>command=frame.quit)
>         self.button.pack(side=LEFT)
>
>         self.hi_there = Button(frame, text="Hello",
>command=self.say_hi)
>         self.hi_there.pack(side=LEFT)
>
>     def say_hi(self):
>
>         print "hi there, everyone"
>
>root = Tk()
>
>app = App(root)
>
>root.mainloop()
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