On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 6:03 PM, David Hutto <smokefl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Bill DeBroglie > <bill.debrog...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> Totally new to this stuff and community so I very much appreciate the help >> and apologize in advance for asking what might be a stupid question... Oh, >> and I'm new to the lingo too!! >> >> I'm having issues running Python in Terminal. When I run code through the >> interpreter I get: >> >> Python 2.6.5 (r236:73959, Mar 24 2010, 01:32:55) >> [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5943)] on darwin >> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more >> information. >> >>> print("Hello World") >> Hello World >> >> Which is great, but when I try and run the same code in the Terminal by >> calling a program I've written (print("hello world") again) I get the >> following: >> >> matthews-macbook:Dawson_Book matthewparrilla$ ./chapter_2.py >> ./chapter_2.py: line 4: syntax error near unexpected token `"Hello >> World"' >> ./chapter_2.py: line 4: `print("Hello World")' > > Pretty sure it's the parentheses, but I'm not an expert. In python 3 you use > print(), in 2.6 you either use import from __futur__ or print "string here".
I mean __future__ . > >> >> I'm using a Mac OS X 10.5.8. I had previously downloaded Python 2.6.5 AND >> 3.1 and had them both on this computer simultaneously but was having trouble >> with 3.1 crashing. I have since put both in the trash but obviously still >> have 2.6.5 on my system, I assume that was the version pre-installed on this >> Mac. >> >> Any guidance at all would be much appreciated-- I'm totally lost and have >> spent hours trying to figure this out. >> >> bdb >> _______________________________________________ >> Tutor maillist - tu...@python.org >> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >> > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor