[Tutor] New to Python - print function - invalid syntax

[Greg Markham]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Alex Kleider <akleider at sonic.net> wrote:

> On 2014-08-04 10:28, Greg Markham wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm extremely new to Python having only just started learning this week.
>> I'm slowly plodding through a book, Python Programming for the Absolute
>> Beginner, 3rd ed
>> <http://www.amazon.com/Python-Programming-Absolute-Beginner-
>> Edition/dp/1435455002/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1407049249&sr=
>> 8-5&keywords=learning+python>
>>
>> by Michael Dawson.
>>
>> Code is provided for all the scripts found throughout the book (found here
>> <http://www.delmarlearning.com/companions/content/
>> 1435455002/downloads/py3e_source.zip>),
>>
>> but I'm running into a syntax error when running one of the unmodified
>> programs.  On line 14, which reads:
>>
>> *print("Here", end=" ")*
>>
> try
>
> print("Here", end="")
>
> (no space between the quotes)
> The end parameter defaults to newline.
> If you change it to the empty string, there'll be no output of a newline
> character.
>

As I understand it, newline is inferred unless the "end" parameter is
used.  This program is designed merely to illustrate the flexibility of the
print function.  As you'll see below, the output from the line in which I
was receiving an error is intended to read as, "Here it is..."  For
clarity, the full program reads as follows:


# Game Over - Version 2
# Demonstrates the use of quotes in strings
# Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner, 3rd ed - Ch 2
# Greg Markham - Aug 04, 2014

print("Program 'Game Over' 2.0")

print("Same", "message", "as before")

print("Just",
      "a bit",
      "bigger")

print("Here", end=" ")
print("it is...")

print(
        """
         _____       ___       ___  ___   _____
        /  ___|     /   |     /   |/   | |  ___|
        | |        / /| |    / /|   /| | | |__
        | |  _    / ___ |   / / |__/ | | |  __|
        | |_| |  / /  | |  / /       | | | |___
        \_____/ /_/   |_| /_/        |_| |_____|

         _____   _     _   _____   _____
        /  _  \ | |   / / |  ___| |  _  \
        | | | | | |  / /  | |__   | |_| |
        | | | | | | / /   |  __|  |  _  /
        | |_| | | |/ /    | |___  | | \ \
        \_____/ |___/     |_____| |_|  \_\

        """
     )

input("\n\nPress the enter key to exit.")
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