Python: avoid new line with print command [duplicate]
In Python 3.x, you can use the end
argument to the print()
function to prevent a newline character from being printed:
print("Nope, that is not a two. That is a", end="")
In Python 2.x, you can use a trailing comma:
print "this should be",
print "on the same line"
You don't need this to simply print a variable, though:
print "Nope, that is not a two. That is a", x
Note that the trailing comma still results in a space being printed at the end of the line, i.e. it's equivalent to using end=" "
in Python 3. To suppress the space character as well, you can either use
from __future__ import print_function
to get access to the Python 3 print function or use sys.stdout.write()
.
In Python 2.x just put a ,
at the end of your print
statement. If you want to avoid the blank space that print
puts between items, use sys.stdout.write
.
import sys
sys.stdout.write('hi there')
sys.stdout.write('Bob here.')
yields:
hi thereBob here.
Note that there is no newline or blank space between the two strings.
In Python 3.x, with its print() function, you can just say
print('this is a string', end="")
print(' and this is on the same line')
and get:
this is a string and this is on the same line
There is also a parameter called sep
that you can set in print with Python 3.x to control how adjoining strings will be separated (or not depending on the value assigned to sep
)
E.g.,
Python 2.x
print 'hi', 'there'
gives
hi there
Python 3.x
print('hi', 'there', sep='')
gives
hithere