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Ali S
Ali S

Reputation: 17

How to remove apostrophes and parathenses in output?

a=str(input("Enter string: "))
b=str(input("Enter another: "))

def switch(x, y): 
    x, y = y, x
    return x, y

print (switch(a, b))

output is for example: ('there', 'hello') I want to remove parathenses and ''

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1155

Answers (2)

Antti Haapala -- Слава Україні
Antti Haapala -- Слава Україні

Reputation: 133899

The return value of switch is a tuple of 2 items (a pair), which is passed to the print function as a single argument. And print converts each of its arguments to a string with implicit str, and the ('', '') come from the string representation of this tuple.

What you want is to pass each item in the pair separately.

As this is Python 3, you just need to add one character:

print(*switch(a, b))

The * means "pass the elements of the following iterable as separate positional arguments", so it is shorthand (in this case) for

value = switch(a, b)
print(value[0], value[1])

Print normally prints the values separated by a single space. If you want another separator, for example ,, you can use the sep keyword argument:

print(*switch(a, b), sep=', ')

Finally, the str() in your example seem unnecessary.

Upvotes: 1

Karin
Karin

Reputation: 8600

Assuming you want to keep the output of your function the same (a tuple), you can use use join to print the tuple separated by a space:

a = input("Enter string: ")
b = input("Enter another: ")

def switch(x, y):
    return y, x

print(' '.join(switch(a, b)))

Small note: I changed the method to just be return y, x, since the other two lines in the method did not seem needed in this case :)

Upvotes: 1

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