What does SyntaxError Missing parentheses in call to print mean in Python

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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 is the meaning of this?

Feb 14, 2022 in Python by Dev
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This error is generated when one is using older version  Python 2, in Python 3 parentheses are required to call print statements.

print('Hello,  World!')

Output

Hello,  World!
print 'Hello, World!'
File "<ipython-input-2-5fea38df3ff9>", line 1
    print 'Hello, World!'
          ^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print('Hello, World!')?

Python treats this as a syntax error and also gives a clear hint to use parentheses.

answered Feb 14, 2022 by Nandini
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