Python Essential Reference, Second Edition

The print Statement

The print statement produces output on the file contained in sys.stdout. print accepts a comma-separated list of objects such as the following:

print "The values are", x, y, z 

For each object, the str() function is invoked to produce an output string. These output strings are then joined and separated by a single space to produce the final output string. The output is terminated by a newline unless a trailing comma is supplied to the print statement. In this case, only a trailing space is printed. For example:

print "The values are ", x, y, z, w 
# Print the same text, using two print statements 
print "The values are ", x, y,   # Omits trailing newline 
print z, w 

To produce formatted output, use the string-formatting operator ...