Printing and prompting adds a mysterious extra space

[Christoph Haas]

Evening...

I'm writing a simple interactive program to maintain a database.
The goal was to print "> " at the beginning of the line, wait for
user input and then deal with it. Minimal test program:

import sys; print ">", ; print sys.stdin.readline()

However when I run the program and enter "foobar" it looks like this:

./test.py
>foobar
 foobar
^----------- where does this space come from?

I wonder where the space comes from in the line where I print what the
user typed. Does it have to do with the "," after the print which I use
to suppress the newline? Any ideas?

Regards
 Christoph
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I'm still confused - just on a higher level now.
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