Am having a problem on my windows version of python

Question

if 10 > 5:
print("10 greater than 5")
print("program ended")

syntax error invalid syntax

Answer 1

Your code works into Code Playground: the problem isn't in it...

Try to copy paste from your post, towards:
1) the Code Playground and run it
2) a new py file on your pc and execute it

If none works, try to rewrite from scratch ( no copy paste )...

And be sure of your text encoding type... even if I don't think it may be problematic in this case ^^

Finally, attempt to debug ( compare, investigate, and so on... ) and post the result of all of these if you cannot resolve yourself ;)

Answer 2

"There maybe one thing, if you are running Python v2 then print is not a function but a statement"

Yep, but the behaviour is in 3.x you can't use print without parenthesis, and in 2 ( only 2.7 ? ), you can with or without ^^

Answer 3

It's strange... and probably a bug specific to one windows implementation version of Python, because in code playgroud these lines of code run without error...

Answer 4

Where does the syntax invalid points to?
There maybe one thing, if you are running Python v2 then print is not a function but a statement

Answer 5

you probably have python 2 installed instead of 3.

try removing the brackets like this

print "10 greater than 5"
print "program ended"

and tell us what is the output.

Answer 6

I'm having the same problem on Python 3.5 on my PC. I entered:

if 10 > 5:
print("10 greater than 5")
print("Program ended")

And I get the error:

File "(stdin)", line 3
print("Program ended")

Any help would be great. Thanks.