newbie ``print`` question

[gwhite]

On Sep 2, 10:49 am, mblume <foo... at invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Am Sun, 02 Sep 2012 10:23:53 -0700 schrieb gwhite:
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> > I can't figure out how to stop the "add a space at the beginning"
> > behavior of the print function.
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> >>>> print 1,;print 2,
> > 1 2
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> > See the space in between the 1 and the 2 at the output print to the
> > command console?
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> > The help for print is:
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> > "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."
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> > So it is apparently doing what it is supposed to do.
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> > Is there a way to stop this?  Or is there a different function that will
> > only print what you have in the formatted string?
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> > For example, in MATLAB I only had to do:
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> >>> fprintf('1');fprintf('2')
> > 12
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> >  fprintf works the same way if printing to a file.  It only puts in
> > what you explicitly tell it to put in.
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> import sys
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> sys.stdout.write("1"); sys.stdout.write("2")
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> HTH
> Martin

Thanks.