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Wednesday, May 7, 2003

Coolest thing about Python

... is that stuff often works on the first time. Python is the most "comfortable" programming language I've ever used. Stuff usually just works how you expect it to. Extremely well designed language.

Argh! But how do I stop it from printing spaces around shit in my print statements?

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22:10 (utc-4)
edited: 23:06 (utc-4)

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Adam Vandenberg wrote:

You don't.
Print is a special keyword, not a function or method, and will always rpint a newline or space after itself.

Some people consider this a language wart.

If you want to output with no extra whitespace, it's
sys.stdout.write(some string expression)

Or
write = sys.stdout.write
write(some string expression)

∴ Adam Vandenberg | 8-May-2003 12:17am est | #2020

A language rules when pseudocode works.

∴ Matt Croydon | 8-May-2003 12:18am est | http://postneo.com | #2021

Awesome, thanks Adam. I knew the trick about the comma after the print statement, but I was surprised when it still put spaces around everything.

Don't forget Python's bult in printf style support:

print "Hello, %s, check this out." % 'simon'

∴ Simon Willison | 8-May-2003 2:06am est | http://simon.incutio.com/ | #2023

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