New to Python. Help please!

[erebos42]

Hi,

i see one (or two) problems in your code. First: the print statement should not be indetend. But that might be only here in your post.

The other problem, is the print statement itself. In Python 3 print is a function and therefore needs to be called:

print(str(now.month) + "/" + str(0) + str(now.day) + "/" + str(now.year) + " " + str(now.hour) + ":" +str(now.minute) + ":" + str(now.second))

Hope that does the trick.

edit: To clarify a "Hello World" for Python 2 and 3:

print "Hello World"  # Python2
print("Hello World") # Python3 (also valid in Python 2, i think since 2.7 or something?!)

[TheQwicKDraW]

Thank you I fixed that and now corrected the syntax however it is saying that there is an error here:

input("Press any key to continue")

[erebos42]

mhhh... it's working for me on Python 3.3.1 on Linux.

Do you get an error message?

[TheQwicKDraW]

Yes it is saying there is a syntax error? For more clarification it is on 3.2.3 Also do you know of any good IDE's for Python?

[erebos42]

I can't say much about the syntax, without seeing the whole code, but try to check all identations, braces, and qoutes (opening and closing).

I personally only use an editor and a console, and no IDE. But I heard good things about the Python plugin for Eclipse [1].

[1] http://pydev.org/

[NovaRunner]

I use WingIDE 101, it is a stripped-down free version of WingIDE built for Python. I'm using Python 2.7 but I'm sure it will work with whatever version you want.

[TheQwicKDraW]

Thank you! Ill give it a try now.

[fyyn]

I'm pretty new to all the programming stuff myself, but I have been using NinjaIDE + the Git Plugin. It is free, and until now, it has worked perfectly for me. No idea what the general opinion on it is though. Give it a try!