[Tutor] Printing

[Jeff Shannon]

Pete Versteegen wrote:

>Hi pythonians,
>
>I'm wrestling with a formatting issue:
>
>>>>x=['h','e','l','l','o']
>>>>for i in range(0, len(x)):
>>>>        
>>>>
>...     print x[i],
>... 
>h e l l o
>  
>

If you need more fine-grained control of output than you can get from 
print, then use sys.stdout.write().

 >>> import sys
 >>> for x in ['h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o']:
...     sys.stdout.write(x)
...
hello
 >>>

Where print does a variety of convenient formatting tricks that make it 
convenient for common usages, sys.stdout.write() provides raw access to 
the normal output stream.

Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
Credit International