[wingide-users] Need help with something very simple

[Wingware Support]

Douglas Mehling wrote:
>
> I am having trouble getting the IDE set up.  I am following the 
> instructions in the tutorial.  I installed Python after installing the 
> IDE, and now I'm trying to point it to the directory where it is 
> installed.  Everything looks right, but it's apparently not working.  
> The tutorial said to enter the following code into the Python shell in 
> order to print a triangle:
>
>  
>
> for i in range(0, 10):
>
>   print ' ' * (10 - i) + '*' * i
>
>  
>
> I enter the code, but I get this error message:
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>  
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
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>   File "<string>", line 2, in <fragment>
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> Syntax Error:   print ' ' * (10 - i) + '*' * i: <string>, line 211
>
>  
>
> Any suggestions on what I am doing wrong?  I am using version 3.1.1 of 
> Python.

In Python 3.0 and later, print is no longer a statement and needs to be 
invoked like this:

print('' * (10-i) + '*' * i)

We've already updated the tutorial in our sources and this will be in 
the next release
of Wing.  The changes just amounted to adding the ()'s on four prints -- 
two in
example1.py and two in example2.py -- and also two other places in the 
tutorial
text where print is mentioned.

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Stephan Deibel
Wingware | Python IDE
Advancing Software Development

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