Why does Python do this?

[John J. Lee]

Gre7g Luterman <gre7g-d-1059579503.1d83b3 at wolfhome.com> writes:

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> Note the extra space printed when I executed the "print y" command.
[...]
> So it only seems to happen when you interrupt a print statement with
> another print statement during an implicit string conversion.

2.2.1 only does this from the interactive prompt, not from a .py.


John