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'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