On Mar 19, 2:00 am, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 3/19/2011 1:03 AM, Vlastimil Brom wrote: > > > 2011/3/19 Manatee<markrri...@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. > > > > > > >> 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'. > > -- > Terry Jan Reedy- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
Ok, great. I don't know what I was thinking. But the traceback should always be included; thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
