print() function in Python

In this tutorial, you will learn-

• How to Print a simple String in Python?
• How to Print blank lines
• Print end command

Python print() function

The print() function in Python is used to print a specified message on the screen. The print command in Python prints strings or objects which are converted to a string while printing on a screen.

Syntax:

print(object(s))

How to Print a simple String in Python?

More often then not you require to Print strings in your coding construct.

Here is how to print statement in Python 3:

Example: 1

To print the Welcome toGGI, use the Python print statement as follows:

print ("Welcome to GGI")

Output:

Welcome to GGI

In Python 2, same example will look like

print "Welcome to GGI"

Example 2:

If you want to print the name of five countries, you can write:

print("USA")
print("Canada")
print("Germany")
print("France")
print("Japan")

Output:

USA
Canada
Germany
France
Japan

How to print blank lines

Sometimes you need to print one blank line in your Python program. Following is an example to perform this task using Python print format.

Example:

Let us print 8 blank lines. You can type:

print (8 * "\n")

or:

print ("\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n")

Here is the code

print ("Welcome to GGI")
print (8 * "\n")
print ("Welcome to GGI")

Output

Welcome to GGI







Welcome to GGI

Print end command

By default, print function in Python ends with a newline. This function comes with a parameter called ‘end.’ The default value of this parameter is ‘\n,’ i.e., the new line character. You can end a print statement with any character or string using this parameter. This is available in only in Python 3+

Example 1:

print ("Welcome to", end = ' ') 
print ("GGI", end = '!')

Output:

Welcome to GGI!

Example 2:

# ends the output with ‘@.’

print("Python" , end = '@')

Output:

Python@

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