Just installed Python, getting a syntax error for the most basic of prints

I've just installed Python 3.1.3 and tried to run the most basic of prints from the Python Shell. Below is a c/p of the shell. I'm lost already. Why is that a syntax error? Judging by the stuff here it shouldn't 开发者_Go百科be.

Python 3.1.3 (r313:86834, Nov 27 2010, 17:20:37) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
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>>> print "test"
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> print 'test'
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> 

You're using python 3. In python 3 print is a function

print ("test")

You're running Python 3, in which print is a function. So what you need to do is

print("Hello World")

EDIT: You're looking at the documentation for Python v2.7. Python 3 has many changes and is not backwards compatible with Python 2. The Python 3 docs are here.

In Python 3 the print statement has been replaced by a print() function.
Try print("test").

There's more information here, basically Python 3 is intentionally backwards incompatible with previous versions of python. If you'd rather just follow through those tutorials consider installing Python 2.7

Yeah just put parentheses/ () around the quotation marks.

print("test")

You have to do it whenever you print and when doing triple quoted strings.

Example of a triple quoted string:

print ( """

You can type whatever  any where here

""")