Syntax Error

[Manatee]

On Mar 19, 2:00 am, Terry Reedy <tjre... at udel.edu> wrote:
> On 3/19/2011 1:03 AM, Vlastimil Brom wrote:
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> > 2011/3/19 Manatee<markrri... at aol.com>:
> >> I hope this is the place to post this question.
>
> Yes.
> Lesson 1. Report Python version used, as things change. For anything
> that seems like it might by os/system specific, include that too.
> Lesson 2. Always include tracebacks when there is one.
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> >> 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.
>
> >> [...]
>
> > Hi,
> > the code on the mentioned page as well as yours (with adapted
> > indentation and wordwrapping from the mail) seems ok for python 2.
>
> > Is it possible, that you are actually using python3?
> > This would give something like
> >      print "hi there, everyone!"
> >                                ^
> > SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
> > as print was changed to a funcion in this version.
> > print("hi there, everyone!")
>
> If running with Py3, 'import Tkinter' will fail; change to 'import tkinter'.
>
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Ok, great. I don't know what I was thinking. But the traceback should
always be included; thanks.