Learning Objectives - Printing
Use the print command to write text to the screen
Remove the newline character from the print statement
Printing to the Console
Printing to the console
As you learn Python, you will write code in the text editor to the left. Use a
print command to see the output of your program. Enter the code below
(or copy/paste the code) and click the TRY IT button.
print("Hello world")
The reason you were able to see the words appear is because of the print
command. Change your code to look like this and run it again.
"Hello world"
Printing
Newline Character
The print command automatically adds a newline character each time you
use it. This is the default behavior. The code below will not print the two
words on the same line. Enter the code below (or copy/paste the code) and
click the TRY IT button.
print("Hello")
print("world")
Newline Character
The text in red shows the newline character which is added even if you do
not type it. (The newline character is what is inserted when you press
“Enter” or “Return”).
Removing the Newline Character
Add , end='' (two quotes with nothing between them) to your print
command. This overrides the default newline character.
print("Hello ", end='')
print("world")
challenge
What happens if you:
Use double quotes instead of single quotes with end=''
Use end='\t' in the print command
Use end='!' in the print command
Comments
Comments
You may have wondered why a couple of lines of code are a different color
(in the below example, light brown, but it depends on the Theme you have
picked):
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In Python, to write notes in code without effecting it’s function we can use #
to make a comment.
Comments can also be used to help you fix your code. You can “comment
out” lines of code that are not working or you suspect are causing
problems.
challenge
What happens if you:
Change print("Red") to prnt("Red")?
Comment out the line of code with the typo?
Comment Blocks
To make a multi-line comment you can either combine the single line
characters # or wrap the set of lines in triple quotes (''').
'''
This is a multi-line comment
You can then easily end the comment with a triple quote (see
below)
'''
#You can also do a multi-line comment
#like this!
print("Notice code that runs is not the same color as single-
line comments");
print("This feature is called syntax highlighting");
print("It is a common feature of IDEs");
The syntax highlighting is different for comments with #and comments
with '''. That is because the triple quotation marks are also used for multi-
line strings (see the Strings lesson). When a multi-line string is by itself (no
print statement), then Python treats it as multiline comment.
What is an IDE?
An integrated development environment, or IDE, is a computer
program that makes it easier to write other computer programs. They
are used by computer programmers to edit source code, and can be
easier to use than other text editors for new programmers. They can
have compilers so programmers don’t have to open other programs
to compile the source code. They also often have syntax highlighting.
… It also may have predictive coding that can finish lines with syntax
such as brackets or semicolons and can suggest variables to be used.
It also may have debuggers that can step through lines, take breaks
and inspect variables.
Source: Simple Wikipedia
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