Stop spaces from appearing when printing to file

[Kent Johnson]

Brad Tilley wrote:
> I'm printing some info into a txt file that will be uploaded into a 
> MySQL DB. I use ';' as field separaters. How can I stop spaces from 
> appearing on both sides of the ';'

The spaces are a feature of print. To avoid them, use string formatting 
to create a single output string.

> print >> x,';',object,";",AN_string,";",ascii,";",sum

Try
print >> x, ';%s;%s;%s;%s' % (object, AN_string, ascii, sum)

Kent

> 
> My file looks like this:
> 
> ;12345 ; 23456 ; [1,2,3,4,5] ; 15
> 
> I need it to look like this to make the DB happy:
> 
> ;12345;23456;[1,2,3,4,5];15