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I'm running pywin32 build 216.1 and am having trouble using the simple print function - for example:

>>> print 'Hello!'

should return:

Hello!

but instead I get:

Traceback (  File "<interactive input>", line 1
    print 'Hello!'
                      ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

It doesn't matter what I try and use with print, it gives me this same error. I am able to do other things just fine as long as they don't involve the use of the print function. Can anyone help?

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    What version of Python are you running? In 2.x print is a statement and can be used as print 'Hello!'. In 3.x it is a function and should be called as print('Hello!'). Commented Jul 20, 2011 at 19:57

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In Python 3, print is a function, not a statement. Call it like:

print("Hello!")
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Jay, pywin32 is not a version of Python, it's just the GUI and editor. The underlying interpreter is probably Python 3.2.0 or 3.2.1 if you just downloaded it.

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