Print/ String variables

[Math Speak]

Hi,

Very basic question, as I am absolute greenhorn.

When I run this code:

first_name='Mat h'
last_name='Spea k'
print (first_name, last_name)

and the output looks like:
('Math','Speak' )

where as I was expecting:
Math Speak

Is it to do with the version on my mac:2.7.1, where as the book am referring to recommends 3.2.2?

Thanks

[Smygis]

In python 2.7 print (first_name, last_name) print the representation of the truple (first_name, last_name). If you remove the parentheses it will print the strings first_name and last_name.

In python 2.x print is a statment and does not use parentheses.

In python 3.x print is a function and requires parentheses.