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Why can't I get this Eventgen example to work and seeing "SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'"?

simpkins1958
Contributor

Trying to run the example from https://github.com/splunk/eventgen/blob/master/README/Tutorial.md#deployment , but I'm getting an error. Not sure what to do to fix it. Trying this on Windows.

python bin/eventgen.py README/eventgen.conf.tutorial2
  File "bin/eventgen.py", line 113
    print '\n\nCaught kill, exiting...'
                                      ^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'
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kuja
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Have you tried confirming that the environment is using the correct python? It sounds like it might be attempting to use the wrong version of python by chance.. This is a pretty typical error when there is a version mismatch

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