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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I'm somewhat new to Python and this is my first question to the list.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">In the example below you can see that it takes four write statements to equal one print statement.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">At the moment I'm using print statements and redirecting them to a file when I run the script (foo.py > outfile).</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Example using print:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">dimes = 3</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">nickels = 5</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">numofcoins = dimes + nickels</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">money = dimes * 0.1 + nickels * 0.5</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">print 'You have ', numofcoins, 'coins totaling $', money</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">>>>You have 8 coins totaling $ 0.55</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">for the same line, write() is more cumbersome:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">outfile.write('You have ')</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">outfile.write(numofcoins)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">outfile.write(' coins totaling $')</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">outfile.write(money)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Is there a more efficient way of doing this, or some way I can redirect the output internally?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">-Greg Bartz</FONT>
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