Re: [Tutor] Print question in IDLE

2009-01-30 Thread Vern Ceder
I just tried it in Python 3 (both at the interactive prompt and in idle) and both places I get: >>> "food is very nice" #lets eat 'food is very nice' >>> So it looks like it *should* work. You might copy and paste exactly what you get into a post, including the full error traceso that we can s

Re: [Tutor] Print question in IDLE

2009-01-30 Thread Alan Gauld
"jims" wrote I apologize for asking such a dumb question The only dumb questions are the ones you don;t ask. Its how to learn! Simply put here is where I am stuck. (Python version 3.0) I type in the example using the comment command: (example) *>>> "food is very nice" #lets eat The >>

Re: [Tutor] Print question in IDLE

2009-01-30 Thread Eric Dorsey
At the >>> prompt (which is the interactive) interpreter, try: print('food is very nice') #lets eat On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 5:45 PM, jims wrote: > I apologize for asking such a dumb question but I have no prior programming > experience and am trying to learn by following examples from a book.

[Tutor] Print question in IDLE

2009-01-30 Thread jims
I apologize for asking such a dumb question but I have no prior programming experience and am trying to learn by following examples from a book. And also from the web. Simply put here is where I am stuck. (Python version 3.0) I type in the example using the comment command: (example) *>>> "f