Avoid spurious space in print

Question

I did not expect this, but:

print "AAAA",
print "BBBB"

Will output:

AAAA BBBB

With an extra space in the middle. This is actually documented.

How can I avoid that supurious space? The documentation says:

In some cases it may be functional to write an empty string to standard output for this reason.

But I do not know how to do that.

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 25 '13 at 11:14

4

Three options:

Don't use two print statements, but concatenate the values:
```
print "AAAA" + "BBBB"
```
Use sys.stdout.write() to write your statements directly, not using the print statement
```
import sys

sys.stdout.write("AAAA")
sys.stdout.write("BBBB\n")
```

from __future__ import print_function

print("AAAA", end='')
print("BBBB")

answered Jan 25 '13 at 11:14

Martijn Pieters

Thanks! All three are bad options for me :) but I guess there is no good option. I expected some flag for the `print` statement (similar to the final `,`), but I see there is no way of telling print "do not put a space". – blueFast Jan 25 '13 at 12:06
@gonvaled: That's one of the reasons Python 3 switched to a `print()` function; allowing you to actually alter the defaults. The `from __future__` import was added to help the transition from 2 to 3. – Martijn Pieters Jan 25 '13 at 12:11

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 25 '13 at 11:12

2

Get used to use print() function instead of the statement. It's more flexible.

from __future__ import print_function

print('foo', end='')
print('bar')

answered Jan 25 '13 at 11:12

georg

This does mean that any module importing that for this case would require all `print` statements to be amended though – Jon Clements Jan 25 '13 at 11:14

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