How to print spaces in Python?

Question

In C++, \n is used, but what do I use in Python?

I don't want to have to use: print (" "). This doesn't seem very elegant.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

A lot of users gave you answers, but you haven't marked any as an answer.

You add an empty line with print(). You can force a new line inside your string with '\n' like in print('This is one line\nAnd this is another'), therefore you can print 10 empty lines with print('\n'*10)

You can add 50 spaces inside a sting by replicating a one-space string 50 times, you can do that with multiplication 'Before' + ' '*50 + 'after 50 spaces!'

You can pad strings to the left or right, with spaces or a specific character, for that you can use .ljust() or .rjust() for example, you can have 'Hi' and 'Carmen' on new lines, padded with spaces to the left and justified to the right with 'Hi'.rjust(10) + '\n' + 'Carmen'.rjust(10)

I believe these should answer your question.

Answer 2

Here's a short answer

x=' '

This will print one white space

print(x)

This will print 10 white spaces

print(10*x) 

Print 10 whites spaces between Hello and World

print(f"Hello{x*10}World")

Answer 3

In Python2 there's this.

def Space(j):
    i = 0
    while i<=j:
        print " ",
        i+=1

And to use it, the syntax would be:

Space(4);print("Hello world")

I haven't converted it to Python3 yet.

Answer 4

Space char is hexadecimal 0x20, decimal 32 and octal \040.

>>> SPACE = 0x20
>>> a = chr(SPACE)
>>> type(a)
<class 'str'>
>>> print(f"'{a}'")
' '

Answer 5

print("hello" + ' '*50 + "world")

Answer 6

rjust() and ljust()

test_string = "HelloWorld"

test_string.rjust(20)
'          HelloWorld'

test_string.ljust(20)
'HelloWorld          '

Answer 7

To print any amount of lines between printed text use:

print("Hello" + '\n' *insert number of whitespace lines+ "World!")

'\n' can be used to make whitespace, multiplied, it will make multiple whitespace lines.

Answer 8

First and foremost, for newlines, the simplest thing to do is have separate print statements, like this:

print("Hello")
print("World.")
#the parentheses allow it to work in Python 2, or 3.

To have a line break, and still only one print statement, simply use the "\n" within, as follows:

print("Hello\nWorld.")

Below, I explain spaces, instead of line breaks...

I see allot of people here using the + notation, which personally, I find ugly. Example of what I find ugly:

x=' ';
print("Hello"+10*x+"world"); 

The example above is currently, as I type this the top up-voted answer. The programmer is obviously coming into Python from PHP as the ";" syntax at the end of every line, well simple isn't needed. The only reason it doesn't through an error in Python is because semicolons CAN be used in Python, really should only be used when you are trying to place two lines on one, for aesthetic reasons. You shouldn't place these at the end of every line in Python, as it only increases file-size.

Personally, I prefer to use %s notation. In Python 2.7, which I prefer, you don't need the parentheses, "(" and ")". However, you should include them anyways, so your script won't through errors, in Python 3.x, and will run in either.

Let's say you wanted your space to be 8 spaces, So what I would do would be the following in Python > 3.x

print("Hello", "World.",  sep=' '*8, end="\n")
# you don't need to specify end, if you don't want to, but I wanted you to know it was also an option
#if you wanted to have an 8 space prefix, and did not wish to use tabs for some reason, you could do the following.
print("%sHello World." % (' '*8))

The above method will work in Python 2.x as well, but you cannot add the "sep" and "end" arguments, those have to be done manually in Python < 3.

Therefore, to have an 8 space prefix, with a 4 space separator, the syntax which would work in Python 2, or 3 would be:

print("%sHello%sWorld." % (' '*8, ' '*4))

I hope this helps.

P.S. You also could do the following.

>>> prefix=' '*8
>>> sep=' '*2
>>> print("%sHello%sWorld." % (prefix, sep))
    Hello  World.

Answer 9

simply assign a variable to () or " ", then when needed type

print(x, x, x, Hello World, x)

or something like that.

Hope this is a little less complicated:)

Answer 10

Sometimes, pprint() in pprint module works wonder, especially for dict variables.

Answer 11

this is how to print whitespaces in python.

import string  
string.whitespace  
'\t\n\x0b\x0c\r '   
i.e .   
print "hello world"   
print "Hello%sworld"%' '   
print "hello", "world"   
print "Hello "+"world   

Answer 12

Tryprint

Example:

print "Hello World!"
print
print "Hi!"

Hope this works!:)

Answer 13

Any of the following will work:

print 'Hello\nWorld'

print 'Hello'
print 'World'

Additionally, if you want to print a blank line (not make a new line), print or print() will work.

Answer 14

A lone print will output a newline.

print

In 3.x print is a function, therefore:

print()

Answer 15

If you need to separate certain elements with spaces you could do something like

print "hello", "there"

Notice the comma between "hello" and "there".

If you want to print a new line (i.e. \n) you could just use print without any arguments.