print foo, adds a space to beginning of next line?

[Rainy]

On Wed, 06 Jun 2001 14:59:04 -0400, George Young <gry at ll.mit.edu> wrote:
> [python 2.1, intel linux]
> def f():
>      print 'what is your name: ',
>      x=sys.stdin.readline()
>      print 'what is your age: ',
>      y=sys.stdin.readline()
> 
> f()
> what is your name: mememe
>  what is your age: 48
> 
> Why does it print a space at the beginning of the second line?
> 
> If I use sys.stdout.write('what is your name: ') instead, it
> works fine.

I think, that's probably an intended effect, as you often need
to separate strings by spaces, so instead of doing
print something + ' ' + something_else you just do
print something, something_else

If you don't want that, you use sys.stdout.write.



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