Re: [Tutor] Help - My First Program Fails

2012-09-10 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On 10/09/12 19:40, tayo rotimi wrote: Hi Steven. Thank you for your answer below. The program now runs, using print("Game Over"). I use Python 3..; but the book - python for absolute beginner - that I have is an old (2003) edition. I don't know how this combination may affect my learning, goin

Re: [Tutor] Help - My First Program Fails

2012-09-10 Thread tayo rotimi
Hi Steven. Thank you for your answer below. The program now runs, using print("Game Over"). I use Python 3..; but the book - python for absolute beginner - that I have is an old (2003) edition. I don't know how this combination may affect my learning, going forward. Could you please suggest

Re: [Tutor] Help - My First Program Fails

2012-09-09 Thread Steven D'Aprano
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[Tutor] Help - My First Program Fails

2012-09-09 Thread tayo rotimi
My first exercise: print "Game Over" does not run! Where have I missed it? The error message is as follows:  File "", line 1    print "Game Over"                     ^  SyntaxError: invalid syntax I am still surprised at this error. I 'll appreciate your help. Regards. Tayo __