What's Wrong With Such A Simple Code?

[bsmile]

I am totally new to python, I wrote such a simple code, as

in file ggg.py I wrote

var = raw_input("Enter something: ")
print "you entered ", var

under linux shell, I issue
python ggg.py

it complains

File "ggg.py", line 1
var = raw_input("Enter something: ")
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax


any idea what goes wrong?

 

[UoPTucson]

What version of Python are you using?
Python 2.x has the raw_input() function, but that was done away with in
Python 3.x.
In Python 3.x your code would be:

var = input("Enter something: ")
print ("you entered ", var)

Note the () in the print function.
this happens when you have Python run your program from a command line.
You are getting a version 3 Python interpreter.