I meant 'trailing': not leading. mea culpa.
Jon. Jon Clements wrote: > Didn't know of the >> syntax: lovely to know about it Bruno - thank > you. > > To the OP - I find the print statement useful for something like: > print 'this','is','a','test' > >>> 'this is a test' > (with implicit newline and implicit spacing between parameters) > > If you want more control (more flexibility, perhaps?) over the > formatting of the output: be it spacing between parameters or newline > control, use the methods Bruno describes below. > > I'm not sure if you can suppress the spacing between elements (would > love to be corrected though); to stop the implicit newline use > something like > print 'testing', > >>> 'testing' > (but - with the leading comma, the newline is suppressed) > > I personally find that print is convenient for sentences (or writing > 'lines'). > > Thought it worth pointing this out in case, like some I know, you come > across a cropper with certain output streams. > > All the best, > > Jon. > > > > Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > > A.M a écrit : > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > I found print much more flexible that write method. Can I use print > > > instead > > > of file.write method? > > > > > > > f = open("/path/to/file") > > print >> f, "this is my %s message" % "first" > > f.close() > > > > To print to stderr: > > > > import sys > > print >> sys.stderr, "oops" > > > > FWIW, you and use string formating anywhere, not only in print statements: > > > > s = "some %s and % formating" % ("nice", "cool") > > print s > > > > You can also use "dict formating": > > > > names = {"other": "A.M.", "me" : "bruno"} > > s = "hello %(other)s, my name is %(me)s" % names -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list