printing special characters without spaces

Question

I made a for loop to write a little program that has an if condition. I want to print a number and put it between '' without any space. Here is a portion of my program :

for y in range(2):  

print('  if a ==','\'',y,'\'' ,'and',' b ==','\'',y,'\'',':')

My output is

• if a == ' 0 ' and b == ' 0 ' :

  if a == ' 1 ' and b == ' 1 ' :

but I want it to be :

• if a == '0' and b == '0' :

  if a == '1' and b == '1' :

without any spaces between the ' and the number.

Answer 1

Elaborating on my comment. You can use + instead. However a much better way of "formatting" you print statements exactly the way you want is to use .format.

print ('If a == '{0}' and b == '{0}'.format(str(y)))