Author Topic: I'm an idiot (Never mind) (Read 1696 times)

Condor33 · « **on:** July 21, 2009, 03:37:02 PM »

Allow me to ask the dumbest question ever. I'm trying to create a python script (I only know programming in BASIC) but I keep getting a weird error. If I type even the most simple piece of code like

print 'Hello world!'

I get an error highlighting the second [ ' ] and saying "invalid syntax." I know this is not the best forum to ask for help on, but several people here know Python and I'm the most worthless programmer ever, so I might as well ask. Anyone know what I should do here? I'm running python version 3.1 and using the copy of IDLE included with the download.

roboman2444 · « **Reply #1 on:** July 21, 2009, 04:52:14 PM »

i think its "hecko world" and not 'hecko world'

DuckRA2 · « **Reply #2 on:** July 21, 2009, 06:16:13 PM »

in Visual Basic they use Msgbox("text here") so yes probably you need "" not ''

Condor33 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 21, 2009, 06:27:32 PM »

Never mind, I was reading a tutorial for 2.6 and was using 3.1, which isn't backwards compatible.

I don't know how they managed to break something as simple as "hecko world," but they did, so I'm switching versions. Thanks for the help though!

Pwnator · « **Reply #4 on:** July 30, 2009, 04:23:32 AM »

I knew I should've chosen Python over XHTML for my subject. Darn.

Serge · « **Reply #5 on:** August 03, 2009, 06:48:46 AM »

Quote from: Condor33;53572

Never mind, I was reading a tutorial for 2.6 and was using 3.1, which isn't backwards compatible. I don't know how they managed to break something as simple as "hecko world," but they did, so I'm switching versions. Thanks for the help though!

In 3.x print is a function, not a statement like it was before, so you do

print("Holy sh**!")

It's actually good they made it a function.

Condor33 · « **Reply #6 on:** August 03, 2009, 07:39:57 AM »

I assume that was to fix the problem of not being able to use apostrophes in print statements easily.

Serge · « **Reply #7 on:** August 03, 2009, 01:23:37 PM »

Quote from: Condor33;56886

I assume that was to fix the problem of not being able to use apostrophes in print statements easily.

No, that was to make it consistent. Having one instruction a statement was a bit weird. Oh, and 3.0 was meant to break backwards-compability, hence the version number (and not 2.8).