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On 9/2/2012 1:23 PM, gwhite wrote:
> I can't figure out how to stop the "add a space at the beginning"
> behavior of the print function.
>
>>>> print 1,;print 2,
> 1 2

You have discovered why print is a function in 3.x.
 >>> print(1, 2, sep='')
12
 >>> print(1, end=''); print(2, end='')
12

In 2.6 or 2.7, you can add
   from __future__ import print_function
but I recommend using 3.2 or 3.3 unless you have a reason to use older 
Python.



-- 
Terry Jan Reedy