Print without a new line or space in Python

Posted by Codehead on November 6, 2008 at 3:17 pm · Under Python

Here is another little trick in Python; the print statement always inserts a line break after it prints your text, for example:

print "Hello"
print "Python"
print "!"

Will print:
Hello
Python
!

Now, you can fix the issue with the line break by inserting a comma after the print statement:

print "Hello",
print "Python",
print "!"

This will print:
Hello Python !

But the problem is that it will still insert a space after it prints the text, so to fix this you will have to use sys.stdout.write like this:

import sys
sys.stdout.write("Hello ")
sys.stdout.write("Python")
sys.stdout.write("!")

This will print:
Hello Python!

Have fun with Python

4 Comments for Print without a new line or space in Python

Jake Wharton said,

November 6, 2008 @ 3:58 pm

For Python 3.0 the print statement is now a function.

print “Hello!” is now print(”Hello!”)

Your space-less example would be obtained by using the sep paramater.

print(”Hello “, “Python”, “!”, sep=”")
Codehead said,

November 6, 2008 @ 4:11 pm

Jake, that’s good to know, thanks!
I didn’t have time to look at Python 3.0 yet.
nick said,

December 16, 2008 @ 7:24 pm

in Python 5, the print statement can be used as a statement, or a function. It doesnt matter.
Codehead said,

December 16, 2008 @ 7:41 pm

Python 5?!