I'm afraid the original post by 노연수<clear0...@naver.com> has not come through to me, so I will have to reply to Ben's reply.
On Fri, 09 Mar 2018 12:59:52 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > I am not using Python 3.7 (it isn't released yet); I recommend staying > with the latest Python release. Today, that is version 3.6. 3.6 is the latest *stable* release; but there are unstable releases, such as 3.7.0.b2. We should be glad that there are people willing to run unstable and beta versions, otherwise they would not get any real-world testing, bugs would not be fixed, and the "stable" X.Y.0 release would be a de-facto unstable, untried beta version. > When I use Python 3.6 and run the code example you give, it behaves this > way:: > > >>> print (" hello\ rpython ") > hello\ rpython My guess is that the Original Poster carelessly re-typed his code instead of copying and pasting it. When he said he tried this: print (" hello\ rpython ") what he *actually* did was probably something like this: print ("hello\rpython") When I try that, I get this: py> print ("hello \rpython") python which seems to match the OP's description. Printing strings containing \r (carriage returns) may be dependent on the console or terminal you use, and even on *where* the carriage return is in the string, but in general I expect that printing \r will instruct the terminal to return to the beginning of the CURRENT line. The rest of the string will then overwrite the beginning of the line. For example: py> print ("hello world\rpython") pythonworld >> However, if you type print (" hello\ rpython ") in the python 3.7.0.b2 >> idle, it is output as hellopython. Again, my prediction is that the OP has carelessly retyped his code, and what he means is print ("hello \rpython") which in IDLE *does not* return to the start of the line. In IDLE 3.5 on Linux, I get this: >>> print('hello\rpython') hello\rpython Curiously, that's not a backslash r, it's actually a carriage return: when I copy and paste it in this text, the editor treated it as a new line character: # direct copy and paste becomes this in my editor >>> print('hello\rpython') hello python But it is possible that due to differences between platforms, the OP's version of IDLE doesn't display a carriage return as \r but rather as an invisible zero-width space. -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list