2.9 Printing

So far, we have only seen Python displaying the value of objects or evaluated expressions.

"This is a sample string"

'This is a sample string'

If you are displaying information to a consumer of your code, you need more sophisticated tools to generate text from data. The print function is a versatile way of combining strings and objects into readable forms.

In its simplest form, print takes a str, or an object that can be converted to a str, and displays it on the console. Python does not show the delimiting quotes.

print("This is a sample string")

This is a sample string

print(17 + 4)

21

You can print several objects at once, and Python separates them with spaces.

print(57, 99, -4.3)

57 99 -4.3

2.9.1 Concatenating strings

You can concatenate strings using “+” within print. Use str on any non-string...