Could someone explain me something!

[Cliff Wells]

On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 10:19, Ole Jensen wrote:
> I am indeed just getting started with python, and was just toying around
> when I found something I didn't understand
> 
> (its very simple so please don't laugh)
> 
> when typed this into the python shell:
> print "5+5 =";5+5
> 
> the result becomes:
> 5+5 =
> 10
> 
> so I am thinking that if you use a [,] you get a spacing and if you use a
> [;] you get a line break

The semicolon is an end of line delimiter, so 

>>> print "5+5 =";5+5

is the equivalent of 

>>> print "5+5 ="
5+5 =
>>> 5+5
10
>>>


> but when you write it into a .py file the result differs to just this:
> 5+5

Actually, I would expect the output to be

5+5 =


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