Puzzling input problem

[Stephen R. Figgins]

Kevin Cazabon wrote:
> 
> How about using this instead:
> 
> answer = raw_input("prompt string: ")

Yeah, that is how I would normally do it.  In this case, there were some
variables in the prompt string so I decided to it.

My question was not, "how do I use raw_input()?" It was, "why does the
space appear where it does?"

Alex supplied the answer.  When I followed the first print statement
with a comma, it set a softspace property on standard out. raw_input()
did not use or change this property when it modified the screen.  The
second print did, however, so it printed an extra space before the
second print.

-Stephen