newbie ``print`` question

[gwhite]

On Sep 2, 1:37 pm, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr... at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Sep 2012 10:23:53 -0700 (PDT), gwhite <gwh... at ti.com>
> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
>
>
>
> > "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?
>
> E:\UserData\Wulfraed\My Documents>python
> ActivePython 2.7.2.5 (ActiveState Software Inc.) based on
> Python 2.7.2 (default, Jun 24 2011, 12:21:10) [MSC v.1500 32 bit
> (Intel)] on win32
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>
> >>> import sys
> >>> print "1",;sys.stdout.softspace=0;print "2"
> 12
>
> >>> sys.stdout.write("1");sys.stdout.write("2");print
> 12
>
>         In Python 2.x, the equivalent of fprint/fprintf is NOT print but
> sys.stdout.write/file_object.write
>
>         "print" is just a convenience function that is designed to translate
> its arguments into a textual representation, and then drop it to the
> screen. Part of the convenience is to separate output items by a space
> and to emit a newline at the end.
>
>         .write(), OTOH, does no formatting -- not even new lines. You have
> to provide all conversion to text, and line endings.

Thanks.  I am starting to get it.