Printing in Python
Introduction
In this article, we will learn how to display information on the screen. We will start with printing texts composed of letters, numbers, and other symbols.
Many Python instruction names are derived from English words, which is helpful when writing and reading code. For example, the instruction used for printing is called print. After the word print, within parentheses, we specify what should be displayed on the screen. The outputted text should be enclosed in quotation marks. For example:
print("Codeforia")
will display on the screen:
Codeforia
and
print("Programming is fun! :)")
will display:
Programming is fun! :)
New line character
The transition to the new line (commonly referred to as 'enter') is denoted as \n (a combination of two characters). For example:
print("Code\nfor\nia")
will display:
Code
for
ia
'end' parameter
A program may contain multiple instructions. We write each of them in a separate line. For example:
print("One")
print("Two")
print("Three")
will display:
One
Two
Three
Notice that by default, after executing a print instruction, there is a new line. We would achieve the same result by running the code:
print("One\nTwo\nThree")
We can specify what should be displayed after the print instruction is executed instead of the default end of line (\n). It is sufficient to set the value of the end parameter. Place the end parameter inside the parentheses after the text we want to print. For example:
print("One", end="$")
print("Two", end="?")
print("Three", end="*")
will print messages ending respectively with $, ? and *:
One$Two?Three*
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