Using print with format to stdout generates unwanted space

[Michael Hoffman]

[Tim Williams]
>>For quick and simple removal of the extra space,  append a '\b'
>>backspace character to your output "string"

[Jorgen Grahn]
> For things that are only ever to be viewed on the terminal, yes.
> But this does, of course, print an actual backspace character.
> If you feed this output to another program, chances are it will
> not treat <space><backspace> as no space at all.
> 
> I prefer building up a list and doing ' '.join(thelist) in these situations.

A much better approach. Or you can use sys.stdout.write() as others have 
said.
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Michael Hoffman