Irmen de Jong wrote: > Michael Hoffman wrote: >> Lonnie Princehouse wrote: >> >>> C:\>python -u >>> Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:13:57) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] >>> on win32 >>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> >>>>>> print 'hello' >>> >>> >>> File "<stdin>", line 1 >>> print 'hello' >>> ^ >>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax >> >> >> Worksforme: >> >> C:\Python24>python.exe -u >> Python 2.4.1 (#65, May 24 2005, 13:43:04) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on >> win32 >> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >> >>> print 'hello' >> hello >> >> Strange that your python build is from 30 March and mine is from 24 May. > > > Problem also occurs on my machine using Win XP Home, > Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:13:57) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 > > > even just typing "print" at the interactive prompt causes a syntax error...
It __may__ be that this is caused by an error in the codecs machinery which is already fixed in 2.4 CVS. Could you try this out? Reinhold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
