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A someone who just started learning Python at the time, it was terribly discouraging that I couldn't even get a "hello world" script to work, following exactly the example in any tutorial. I kept thinking there must be something wrong with my system configuration, or my environment variables, my character encoding, or something. There's always a million things that can go wrong when getting started with an unfamiliar programming language.

I didn't imagine they'd made a breaking change affecting the print statement which, of course, no beginner-learn-python site was yet aware to warn you about. The error message at the time was not so helpful as it is now.