Output through print() statement

Output through print() statement

The print( ) function of python is a way to send output to standard output device, which is normally a monitor.

The simplified syntax³ to use print( ) function is as follows –

print(“you can print anything by this function”)

Let us consider some simple examples –

print(“Hello”)   # a string

print(175)      # a number

print(3.14)     # a float or value of pi

Let us consider some examples with there outputs –

Example 1 –

print(“my name is jack”)

output is –

my name is jack

example 2 –

print(“product of 2 and 3 is ”,2*3)

output is –

product of 2 and 3 is 6

example 3 –

a=25

print(“the half of the ,a, is”,a/2)

output is –

the half of the 25 is 12.5

Features of print statement

The print statement has a number of features:

1 – it auto converts the item to strings i.e., if you are printing a numeric value then the print statement will convert the numeric value to the strings and print it ; for numeric values first the print statement will evaluate the values and then converts the result to the strings

2 – the print statement will insert the spaces (gapes) automatically because of the default value of the sep argument is spaces (‘ ’). The sep argument shows the separator character. The print statement will automatically add the sep statement between the items or objects which is being printed in the next line. If we did not leave the space then by default the sep character will automatically leave the spaces in between the items or objects.

Example –

print(“my”,”name”,”is”,”jack”)

output is –

my name is jack

3 – it adds a new line character at the end of the line unless until you give your own end command.

The new line character is represented by the - \n

Since the new line character will leave one line after the one statement in the python shell.