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by gary_0 1210 days ago
> Hello world is just `print "Hello, world!"`

SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print("Hello, world!")?
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pxc 1210 days ago
That's because that issue of the webcomic is like 15 years old. It was true of the version of Python which was current at the time:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6182964/why-is-parenthes...

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gary_0 1210 days ago
Yes, I know. But some people still have the reflex from Python 2 and feel bitter when the error message says "I know what you want, and I'm not giving it to you."
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