if-statement: I just laid my hands on Richard Halterman, 2011 Python edition for a beginner like me.

I just laid my hands on Richard Halterman, 2011 Python edition for a beginner like me. I am a little bit taken aback with the if/else condition. I keep getting the syntax error whenever type 'else' followed by a colon before the condition. I type 'else' without the colon and still get syntax error.

else: print('different')

SyntaxError: invalid syntax