[python] Printing without newline (print 'a',) prints a space, how to remove?

I have this code:

>>> for i in xrange(20):
...     print 'a',
... 
a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a

I want to output 'a', without ' ' like this:

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Is it possible?

Just as a side note:

Printing is O(1) but building a string and then printing is O(n), where n is the total number of characters in the string. So yes, while building the string is "cleaner", it's not the most efficient method of doing so.

The way I would do it is as follows:

from sys import stdout
printf = stdout.write

Now you have a "print function" that prints out any string you give it without returning the new line character each time.

printf("Hello,")
printf("World!")

The output will be: Hello, World!

However, if you want to print integers, floats, or other non-string values, you'll have to convert them to a string with the str() function.

printf(str(2) + " " + str(4))

The output will be: 2 4

this is really simple

for python 3+ versions you only have to write the following codes

for i in range(20):
      print('a',end='')

just convert the loop to the following codes, you don't have to worry about other things

without what? do you mean

>>> print 'a' * 20
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

?

as simple as that

def printSleeping():
     sleep = "I'm sleeping"
     v = ""
     for i in sleep:
         v += i
         system('cls')
         print v
         time.sleep(0.02)

From PEP 3105: print As a Function in the What’s New in Python 2.6 document:

>>> from __future__ import print_function
>>> print('a', end='')

Obviously that only works with python 3.0 or higher (or 2.6+ with a from __future__ import print_function at the beginning). The print statement was removed and became the print() function by default in Python 3.0.

WOW!!!

It's pretty long time ago

Now, In python 3.x it will be pretty easy

code:

for i in range(20):
      print('a',end='') # here end variable will clarify what you want in 
                        # end of the code

output:

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 

More about print() function

print(value1,value2,value3,sep='-',end='\n',file=sys.stdout,flush=False)

Here:

value1,value2,value3

you can print multiple values using commas

sep = '-'

3 values will be separated by '-' character

you can use any character instead of that even string like sep='@' or sep='good'

end='\n'

by default print function put '\n' charater at the end of output

but you can use any character or string by changing end variale value

like end='$' or end='.' or end='Hello'

file=sys.stdout

this is a default value, system standard output

using this argument you can create a output file stream like

print("I am a Programmer", file=open("output.txt", "w"))

by this code you will create a file named output.txt where your output I am a Programmer will be stored

flush = False

It's a default value using flush=True you can forcibly flush the stream

Python 3.x:

for i in range(20):
    print('a', end='')

Python 2.6 or 2.7:

from __future__ import print_function
for i in xrange(20):
    print('a', end='')

You can suppress the space by printing an empty string to stdout between the print statements.

>>> import sys
>>> for i in range(20):
...   print 'a',
...   sys.stdout.write('')
... 
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

However, a cleaner solution is to first build the entire string you'd like to print and then output it with a single print statement.

You could print a backspace character ('\b'):

for i in xrange(20):
    print '\ba',

result:

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Either what Ant says, or accumulate into a string, then print once:

s = '';
for i in xrange(20):
    s += 'a'
print s

If you want them to show up one at a time, you can do this:

import time
import sys
for i in range(20):
    sys.stdout.write('a')
    sys.stdout.flush()
    time.sleep(0.5)

sys.stdout.flush() is necessary to force the character to be written each time the loop is run.