[GH-ISSUE #329] Documentation examples use print builtin instead of function which is not python 3 compatible #189

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opened 2026-02-27 23:21:17 +03:00 by kerem · 0 comments

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Originally created by @toabctl on GitHub (Oct 13, 2018).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/spotipy-dev/spotipy/issues/329

The documentation (eg. https://github.com/plamere/spotipy/blob/master/docs/index.rst#welcome-to-spotipy). uses the built-in print statement instead of the print() function. This works for python2 but raises a syntax error on python3

print "Usage: %s username" % (sys.argv[0],)
                             ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Originally created by @toabctl on GitHub (Oct 13, 2018). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/spotipy-dev/spotipy/issues/329 The documentation (eg. https://github.com/plamere/spotipy/blob/master/docs/index.rst#welcome-to-spotipy). uses the built-in ```print``` statement instead of the ```print()``` function. This works for python2 but raises a syntax error on python3 ``` print "Usage: %s username" % (sys.argv[0],) ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax ```