[Tutor] Printing

[Pete Versteegen]

Thanks Jeff,


I also found just now that I can do it as follows:

>>> import string
>>> x=['h','e','l','l','o']
>>> text = string.join(x,"")
>>> print text
hello




On 2/14/03 5:19 PM, "Jeff Shannon" <jeff@ccvcorp.com> wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
> 
>