newbie ``print`` question

[Chris Rebert]

On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 10:23 AM, gwhite <gwhite at ti.com> wrote:
> 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?

If you were to use Python 3.x, yes. Otherwise, no.

> Or is there a different function that
> will only print what you have in the formatted string?

Use the .write() method of the sys.stdout file object.
http://docs.python.org/library/sys.html#sys.stdout

Alternatively, you can stick with `print` and rework your code so that
it outputs an entire line at a time (thus, there'd only be 1 argument
passed to `print`, so its "spaces between arguments" feature wouldn't
come into play).

Cheers,
Chris