Yes, it saved my time big time. Thank you Bruno.
I use the print >>>file to generate HTML files. print is very flexible and nice. The dictionary formatting that Brunto said is awesome! Thanks again, Alan "Jon Clements" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
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