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keep getting a syntax error on the very first program I am running

Jan 14, 2022, 5:12 PM

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I am running this program and keep getting this error. Is this normal?

Invalid syntax. Perhaps you forgot a comma?

Also the t in tags is highlighted.

I even tried different versions of Python also.

Python 3.10.1 (tags/v3.10.1:2cd268a, Dec 6 2021, 19:10:37) [MSC v.1929 64
bit (AMD64)] on win32

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.

print("Hello World")

Hello World

input("\n\nPress the enter key to exit.")

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Re: keep getting a syntax error on the very first program I am running [ In reply to ]

python-list at python

Jan 14, 2022, 5:45 PM

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On 2022-01-15, Bob Griffin <bob.griffin76@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am running this program and keep getting this error. Is this normal?
>
> Invalid syntax. Perhaps you forgot a comma?
>
> Also the t in tags is highlighted.
>
> I even tried different versions of Python also.
>
> Python 3.10.1 (tags/v3.10.1:2cd268a, Dec 6 2021, 19:10:37) [MSC v.1929 64
> bit (AMD64)] on win32
>
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
>
> print("Hello World")
>
> Hello World
>
> input("\n\nPress the enter key to exit.")

You're only supposed to enter the lines:

print("Hello World")

and

input("\n\nPress the enter key to exit.")

The other lines are showing you the output you should see.
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Re: keep getting a syntax error on the very first program I am running [ In reply to ]

python at mrabarnett

Jan 14, 2022, 5:47 PM

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On 2022-01-15 01:12, Bob Griffin wrote:
> I am running this program and keep getting this error. Is this normal?
>
>
>
> Invalid syntax. Perhaps you forgot a comma?
>
>
>
> Also the t in tags is highlighted.
>
>
>
> I even tried different versions of Python also.
>
>
>
> Python 3.10.1 (tags/v3.10.1:2cd268a, Dec 6 2021, 19:10:37) [MSC v.1929 64
> bit (AMD64)] on win32
>
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
>
> print("Hello World")
>
> Hello World
>
> input("\n\nPress the enter key to exit.")
>
I get an error only if I use the entirety of it as a program. Is that
what you're doing, perhaps?

It's not actually a program, but the output from an interactive session.

You start IDLE (I'm assuming that what you're using) and it prints:

Python 3.10.1 (tags/v3.10.1:2cd268a, Dec 6 2021, 19:10:37) [MSC
v.1929 64
bit (AMD64)] on win32

and then shows a prompt.

At the prompt you type:

print("Hello World")

and it print the response:

Hello World

and so on.
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