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Separator in print statement

Bertram Scharpf b.scharpf at tesionmail.de
Tue Oct 14 13:18:40 EDT 2003 
Hi Peter, 

thank you for your detailed answer.

Peter Hansen schrieb im Artikel <3F8C2522.8D1729DD at engcorp.com>:
> The general rule with "print" is that it works like it does, and
> if you don't like the way it works, you need to switch to something
> else.

Anyway. I mean ' ' when I say ' '.

> If you require that the output be generated by separate statements
> or subroutine calls, then you will have to do something fairly
> complicated: create an object which acts like a file object, and 
> which can collect blobs of data as you output them, but hold 
> them in memory, writing them all out together after you send
> it the terminating sequence (\n in this case).

A nice idea; maybe I will have a closer look at it.

> A simpler option is just to collect up the bits of output that
> you need in a list, then use the string join() method to generate
> the output:
> 
>   outList = []
>   outList.extend(['abc', 'def'])
>   outList.append('ghi')
>   print ', '.join(outList)
> 

I think this list approach is what I really meant.

Thanks, also to Matt,
Bertram

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Bertram Scharpf
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