A trivial question about print

[Ante Bagaric]

Is there a way to prevent the print statement to automatically add a space
between two objects?

>>>print "a=",a
a= 1

how to make that cursed blank character dissappear?
Other than print "a=%d" % a because it wouldnt work for iteration of prints..

for i in range(5):
    print i,
	
gives 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and I want 0,1,2,3,4

Yes, I know it's possible to circumvent this behaviour, but I'm curiuous
whether it can be done within the print statement alone.