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ewe
ewe

Reputation: 159

Python \n gives two spaces in between output and \t gives one

I do not understand why when inputing a space between the code with \t gives one space of line between the 'green' and 'Some things I learned so far:' output. When I use \n it gives two spaces inbetween. Shouldn't the space be the same for either \t and \n? I know that \t does tab and \n is new line. but I do not understand how \n does two spaces inbetween Code is:

fav_num = {
    'rachel':'blue',
    'hannah':'green',
}
print(fav_num['rachel'])
print(fav_num['hannah'])
#6-3
coding_glossary = {
    'list':'mutable type where you can store info',
    'tuple':'immutable type similar to list',
    'string':'simple line of code'
}
print('\t')
print('Some things I learned so far: \n')
print('What a list is:')
print(coding_glossary['list'])

Output is :

blue
green

Some things I learned so far: 

What a list is:
mutable type where you can store info

Process finished with exit code 0

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5440

Answers (7)

Artyom Vancyan
Artyom Vancyan

Reputation: 5390

"\n" character is a newline character and when you print "\n" it sets the cursor to a new line. print always sets a new line in the end by default. But you can change that behavior by setting the value of end argument to an empty string.

print("hello", end="")

"\t" is a tab character

for i in range(20):
    print("current number is\t", I)

# current number is    0
# current number is    1
# current number is    2
# current number is    3
# current number is    4
# current number is    5
# current number is    6
# current number is    7
# current number is    8
# current number is    9
# current number is    10
# current number is    11
# current number is    12
# current number is    13
# current number is    14
# current number is    15
# current number is    16
# current number is    17
# current number is    18
# current number is    19

Find more magic characters which can be useful in your programs

Upvotes: 0

Giuseppe
Giuseppe

Reputation: 678

By default print put a new line at the end, to modify this behavior you can set the end parameter with end=""

Example:

print("this will use 2 lines \n")
print("this will use 1 line")
print("this will use 1 line \n", end="")

Upvotes: 1

axelschmidt
axelschmidt

Reputation: 11

Since print() does give an '\n' string at the end of each output the command print('\n') gives the commandline string '\t\n'.

For more details please see the following well documented post Link

Upvotes: 0

siralexsir88
siralexsir88

Reputation: 418

The statement print('\t') is printing a tab, then returning to the next line, as the default print function automatically adds a newline. So you can't see the tab, but it is there. When you add \n to the end of the string you print, it adds a line return in addition to the default line return.

To remove the default line return, specify the 'end' parameter of the print function:

print('abcd\n', end='')

This will only include one line return.

Upvotes: 1

nightowl
nightowl

Reputation: 21

print by default goes to the next line. try 

print(" ",end = "")

so you can see '\t' more clearly.

Also, tab jumps to the next block. A block is usually 4 spaces. Try this and notice where the . is:

print("\t", end=".\n")
print("A\t", end=".\n")
print("ABC\t", end=".\n")
print("ABCD\t", end=".\n")

Upvotes: 1

Tibebes. M
Tibebes. M

Reputation: 7558

python's built-in print function has '\n' as end character implicitly.

print(*objects, sep=' ', end='\n', file=sys.stdout, flush=False):

Print objects to the text stream file, separated by sep and followed by end. sep, end, file and flush, if present, must be given as keyword arguments

So, every time you run print() there is a '\n' character that gets printed implicitly unless you override the behavior by passing end= to it. (like end='' for instance)

Upvotes: 3

quamrana
quamrana

Reputation: 39404

Your code can be equivalently written:

#
print()
print(‘Some things I learned so far:’)
print()
#

Upvotes: 1

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