Hey guys, Python newb here. Literally my first day learning any

Try putting parentheses around your print statement, for example:

print(test)

>>55906095
This guy is correct.

Code Academy teaches you an older version of python. In the latest version you must put parenthesis around your print statements.

>>55906023
You're missing a parenthesis surrounding the string in quotes. It says so right in the error message. Also, CodeAcademy teaches version 2.7 while you're using 3.5. Download version 2.7 if you want to follow along with the tuts.

>>55906095
>>55906139
It worked! thanks guys!

2.7>3.5 desu

>>55906212
>>55906150
I guess I'll download 2.7 then since I am following along with CA.

Also, I've been wanting to make like some app that's like a catalog. This is possible with Python right? How long do I need to learn Python to be able to make this simple catalog app?

>>55906288
A text-based "catalog" or something with visuals? There are GUI libraries for Python. Also I recommend learning Python 3 and up. 2 is being phased out but you still have people clinging to it for dear life like >>55906212

>>55906288
what do you mean by catalog?

>>55907129
how is 3 phasing out 2? The differences seem very menial to me

>>55907155
Python 2 is barely receiving updates anymore, if any. Python 3 was a redesign fixing a lot of the flaws present in Python 2, syntax standardization like print not being a keyword and just a function, etc.

>>55907203
Yep, i have to give you that, however all i've seen different is that raw_input is now input and the print thingy

I have both installed, but honestly for some reason i prefer my prints to not have parenthesis, however i don't know shit so my opinnion is worthless, but how useful are the updates? Should i just change from 2 to 3 or can i keep postponing it?

>>55907155
Like a database. Think of something like a fucking pokedex, I don't know. Something like that.

>>55907246
Off the top of my head I can't think of any other language where print is a keyword and not a function in a standard library. 2 is being kept on life support for those systems built on it that don't/can't migrate to 3.

Think of it this way, would you continue to use Windows XP in this year or Windows 7 5 years from now, etc?

>>55907246

just stay with 3.5

When 2.7 finally dies it's a pain in the ass to port things to 3

>>55906212
>t. UnicodeDecodeError

>>55908242
doesn't this port it?

lines = open("myfile.py", "r").read().split("\n")

first_pass = []
for line in lines:
    x = line.replace("raw_input", "input")
    first_pass.append(x)


my_lines = []
for line in first_pass:
    nu_line = line
    print_pos = line.find("print")
    if print_pos != -1:
       cut_line = line[print_pos + 5:]
       new_line = "print (" + cut_line + ")"
       nu_line = new_line

    my_lines.append(nu_line)


shit = '\n'.join(my_lines)


x = open("myfile_ported.py", "w").write(shit)

granted if you used formatting(or whatever % is called) is a bit harder, but yet very doable

>>55907661
its different, you want your OS to be up to date cause of security stuff, you don't want your dick pics to be hacked, i honestly don't know if there's any valid (meaning practical) reason to remember to use brackets in my prints

>>55907568
yes, learn what classes, __str__(), open(), and json() are

>>55906023
After you get handy with python from code academy, you shall work around with automate the boring stuff with python.
> automatetheboringstuff.com

use notepad++, create .py files and run the files in windows powershell by typing:

python 'filename'.py

In Python 3 print is now a function. By the way IDE's make people stupid. Stop using an IDE and then when you're finished with Codecademy do LPTHW.

Try reading the error messages faggot.

And Python3 is a meme, use 2.7.

>>55906095
>>55906139
>>55911801


Python is such a clusterfuck..

>inconsistent sytax without backwards compatibility
>unnecessary stuff everywhere


Learn Ruby already, it's so much more intuitive in every singe way:

a = 4
print a
print(a)
print "beaver".upcase

>hurr, muh code artisans