Simple Problems: Caps and Commas

[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

On 27 Oct 2003 09:06:05 GMT, rumours say that keflimarcusx at aol.comNOSPAM
(KefX) might have written:

>>I keep looking, but I don't see any "extra spaces".
>
>Then either you don't understand what I mean, or you're not looking hard
>enough.

Mu (which in this case it could mean, "The choices you offer aren't
sufficient to cover what happens here, because you are overlooking
something." :)  Google for "jargon mu".

>print "this, ", "that, ", "and the other"
>
>The "extra spaces" are the spaces after each comma in the first two
>double-quoted strings. It prints out:
>this,  that,  and the other
>
>instead of:
>this, that, and the other

KefX,

the OP used the line:

>print "Address: ",saddy, ",",city, ",",state, ",",zip

This is what you are overlooking: the comma operator in the print
argument list inserts spaces between arguments, therefore also between
the variables and the literal commas (",").  saddy, city and state don't
end in a space, and there is no space in ",".

The cryptic way to solve this is to fiddle with sys.stdout.softspace.
The /preferably obvious/ way is to use string interpolation, which is
definitely not overkill, if you do some benchmarking.

Cheers :)
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