newbie ``print`` question

[mblume]

Am Sun, 02 Sep 2012 10:23:53 -0700 schrieb gwhite:

> I can't figure out how to stop the "add a space at the beginning"
> behavior of the print function.
> 
>>>> print 1,;print 2,
> 1 2
> 
> See the space in between the 1 and the 2 at the output print to the
> command console?
> 
> The help for print is:
> 
> "A space is written before each object is (converted and) written,
> unless the output system believes it is positioned at the beginning of a
> line."
> 
> So it is apparently doing what it is supposed to do.
> 
> Is there a way to stop this?  Or is there a different function that will
> only print what you have in the formatted string?
> 
> For example, in MATLAB I only had to do:
> 
>>> fprintf('1');fprintf('2')
> 12
> 
>  fprintf works the same way if printing to a file.  It only puts in
> what you explicitly tell it to put in.

import sys

sys.stdout.write("1"); sys.stdout.write("2")


HTH
Martin