Question : Error trying to print "Hello World" in Python 3.0!

This must be the mother of all newbie questions, but I'm literally JUST starting to learn Python, and happen to be using Python 3.0 on Windows Vista, downloaded from:
http://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.0/python-3.0.msi

I'm not completely new to programming concepts, and have done scripting using CSS & XHTML & Excel VBA before.

I am basically here asking because I need some encouragement to keep learning, rather than just get depressed & frustrated & give up before I even start for real!

Without further ado, when at the >>> prompt I type:
print "Hello World!"
I get the following error:
SyntaxError: invalid syntax (, line 1)

What am I doing wrong? Is this "Python Shell" something totally different from the needed Python "interpreter" for example? Please save me before I give up and close this programming & Python book!
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print "Hello World!"
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Answer : Error trying to print "Hello World" in Python 3.0!

This is one of the new things in Python3, print is now a function, call it like this:

print("Hello World!")

http://docs.python.org/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html
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