I am not that really new in Programming but in Python I am really a newbie, and so when I started learning Python from the tutorials they encouraged me to use the IDLE edito
Check to make sure that you are really using straight quotes. Some programs/systems automatically replace them with curly quotes.
Here try copy pasting this and running it:
print "hello"
If this turn's out to be an issue then you might want to ask at https://unix.stackexchange.com/ how to disable such a feature.