print "hello", >> file

[Terry Reedy]

"Gerhard Häring" <gerhard.haering at opus-gmbh.net> wrote in message
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> Yar3k <programisci_listy at murator.org_zmien_na_com.pl> wrote:
> > Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> wrote:
> >>    print >> f, "hello"
> >
> > why not f.write("hello") ?
>
> You mean f.write("hello\n")
>
> The difference is that print automatically adds a newline char.

It also automatically converts items to strings and joins multiple
items with spaces.

print >>f, 'hello', 1 #same as
f.write(' '.join(['hello', str(1)])+'\n') # or
f.write('hello'+' '+str(1)+'\n')

Terry J. Reedy