Larning to write code in with Python

[kazinsks]

Hello, 

learning to write code and started with video 1 day one on you tube and can't get a simple scrip to run correct withourt "syntax error". Thoughts...?

[kazinsks]

update scripting works in MEL but not python. However, the video for learning is for python... confusing...

[RFlannery1 · Accepted solution]

You need parentheses around the string to be printed.  Like this:

print("hi")

The video may be using an older version of Python.  Maya 2020 and earlier versions used Python 2.  In Python 2, "print" was a statement instead of a function.  So you could use it without parentheses.  But in Python 3, "print" is a function.  And functions require parentheses.

[kazinsks · Accepted solution]

beautiful! Thanks