Eclipse (with Pydev) keeps throwing SyntaxError

Question

My code:

print "Hello World!"

I even tried adding a semicolon behind, but everytime I save and run (as Python run) it says:

File "E:\Software\Eclipse\Workspace\Python1\src\main.py", line 1 print "Hello World!";

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I have no idea why.

Answer 1

In Python, indentation is really important... Have you check your indentation? Also, lose the ; (don't need it).

correct:

print("hello") or print "hello" (for < 3.0)

not correct:

...print("hello") or print "hello" (for < 3.0)

where . denotes spaces.

Answer 2

This is kind of a longshot but - if you're running python 3.0 that is invalid syntax. Try

print("Hello World!")

to see if this is the case.

Answer 3

What version of Python are you using? Python 2.X has print as a keyword, but Python 3.X only has print() as a function - you'd need to use print("Hello, World!") instead.

Answer 4

Thanks for this thread -- I thought I was going crazy!

I think a compiler error like, "obsolete syntax, use print()" would have been helpful