Playing with Print

print prints things. Well, duh. Let's see how....

>>>print 'hello'
hello

OK, single quotes work.

>>>print "Hello"
Hello

And double quotes. What about printing quotes? I bet I can nest one type of quote inside the others...

>>>print "Python's Print Puts Pennies in Paragraphs"
Python's Print Puts Pennies in Paragraphs

>>>print 'The Python Quoth "Bring out your dead!"'
The Python Quoth "Bring out your dead!"

What about printing both sorts together?

Hmmm...

Maybe I could concatenate...

>>>print 'The Python Quoth "' + "You're no fun anymore!" + '"'
The Python Quoth "You're no fun anymore!"

That worked. But Python's tricky. Maybe there's an easier way. Multiple quotes?

>>> print ""The Python Quoth "I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK!"""
File "", line 1
print ""The Python Quoth "I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK!"""
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

>>> print ''The Python Quoth "I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK!"''
File "", line 1
print ''The Python Quoth "I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK!"''
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

>>> print '''The Python Quoth "I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK!"''''
File "", line 1
print '''The Python Quoth "I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK!"''''
^
SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal

>>> print """'The Python Quoth "I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK!""""
File "", line 1
print """'The Python Quoth "I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK!""""
^
SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal

>>> print """'The Python Quoth "I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK!"""
'The Python Quoth "I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK!

Dang, lost the final double quotes. Lessee...

>>> print """'The Python Quoth "I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK!\""""
'The Python Quoth "I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK!"

Aha! Escaping quotes works!

>>>print 'I\'m a lumberjack and I\'m OK!'
I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK!

Let's try mixing some numbers in.

>>> print 'There are ' + 3 + 'Pythons upon the desk.'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'int' objects

>>> print 'There are ', 3, ' Pythons upon the desk.'
There are 3 Pythons upon the desk.

Commas work, but too many spaces are in there.

>>> print 'There are',3,'Pythons upon the',3,'rd desk.'
There are 3 Pythons upon the 3 rd desk.

OK, the first number is spaced right, how do we get the other one without spaces?

>>> print 'There are',3,'Pythons upon the '+ str(3) +'rd desk.'
There are 3 Pythons upon the 3rd desk.

OK, so we can concatenate with '+', but only if it's a string.

We can use numerals if we put it together with a comma, but then we get an added space.

We can make a numeral into a string with str() and then we can concatenate with + so that we don't get added spaces.

I think I get it.

I'm sure there are a dozen other ways to do this, and at least ten of them may be better. But that'll do for now.