What does "SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'" mean in Python?

python python-3.x
ncoghlan picture ncoghlan · Aug 22, 2014 · Viewed 779.9k times · Source

When I try to use a print statement in Python, it gives me this error:

>>> print "Hello, World!"
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    print "Hello, World!"
                        ^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'

What does that mean?

Answer

ncoghlan picture ncoghlan · Aug 22, 2014

This error message means that you are attempting to use Python 3 to follow an example or run a program that uses the Python 2 print statement:

print "Hello, World!"

Related questions

Convert bytes to a string

I'm using this code to get standard output from an external program: >>> from subprocess import * >>> command_stdout = Popen(['ls', '-l'], stdout=PIPE).communicate()[0] The communicate() method returns an array of bytes: >>> …

Read More
Best way to convert string to bytes in Python 3?

There appear to be two different ways to convert a string to bytes, as seen in the answers to TypeError: 'str' does not support the buffer interface Which of these methods would be better or more Pythonic? Or is it …

Read More
How to install pip with Python 3?

I want to install pip. It should support Python 3, but it requires setuptools, which is available only for Python 2. How can I install pip with Python 3?

Read More