What does print sep t mean

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I am having a bit of trouble trying to find an answer to this  I would like to know what the syntax sep    and  t means  I have found some informaion about it but I didn t quite understand what the purpose of using the syntax was  I m looking for an explanation of what it does and when   why you would use it   An example of sep    being used   print  Property tax      format tax     2f    sep

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sep    in the context of a function call sets the named argument sep to an empty string  See the print   function  sep is the separator used between multiple values when printing  The default is a space  sep       this function call makes sure that there is no space between Property tax    and the formatted tax floating point value   Compare the output of the following three print   calls to see the difference   gt  gt  gt  print  foo    bar   foo bar  gt  gt  gt  print  foo    bar   sep     foobar  gt  gt  gt  print  foo    bar   sep   - gt     foo - gt  bar   All that changed is the sep argument value    t in a string literal is an escape sequence for tab character  horizontal whitespace  ASCII codepoint 9    t is easier to read and type than the actual tab character  See the table of recognized escape sequences for string literals   Using a space or a  t tab as a print separator shows the difference    gt  gt  gt  print  eggs    ham   eggs ham  gt  gt  gt  print  eggs    ham   sep   t   eggs    ham

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sep    ignore whiteSpace  see the code to understand Without sep     from itertools import permutations s k   input   split   for i in list permutations sorted s   int k         print  i    output   HACK 2 A C A H A K C A C H C K H A H C H K K A K C K H   using sep    The code and output   from itertools import permutations s k   input   split   for i in list permutations sorted s   int k         print  i sep       output   HACK 2 AC AH AK CA CH CK HA HC HK KA KC KH

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sep   t  is often used for Tab-delimited file

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The sep   t  can be use in many forms  for example if you  want to read tab separated value  Example  I have a dataset tsv   tab separated value NOT comma separated value df   pd read csv  gapminder tsv    when you try to read this  it will give you an error because you have tab separated value not csv  so you need to give read csv a different parameter called sep   t   Now you can read  df   pd read csv  gapminder tsv  sep   t    with this you can read the it

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