An extraordinarily stupid question

[Marc Poulin]

In article <3CC0D892.2060006 at nyu.edu>, "Shane Hoversten" <srh232 at nyu.edu>
wrote:

> Hi -
> 
> 	This is really dumb, but I just want to print out a character without a
> newline and without a space behind it.  You can't do:
> 
> print c,
> 
> 	Because Python puts a space behind it.  I can't find anywhere in the
> 	dox
> that actually talk about "print" in any detail at all.  Surely there
> must be some way to do this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Shane

Not dumb at all. Here is some documentation on "print".
Note the rules about when the space is printed.

http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/print.html#l2h-330


Try writing to stdout directly.

>>> def print_a():
	sys.stdout.write("a")
	
>>> def print_b():
	sys.stdout.write("b")
	
>>> def print_ab():
	print_a()
	print_b()

>>> print_ab()
ab
>>>