Did you know that the commonly used python print command had some useful arguments for all these times? As we all know, The print() prints a string (or any other object - the object will first get converted into a string) onto a screen. This blog introduces you to two arguments of print() in python. The sep and end arguments.

Create a simple python .py file and copy the following content.

print("Hello", "World")
print("This is my second sentence")

Hello World
This is my second sentence

See the output of the file. This is the default behaviour of print() in python. Now let's see what the sep and end arguments do in python print().

Sep Argument

Run another python script after copying the following content.

print("Hello", "World", sep = "-")

The output will be like this.

Hello-World

The default value for sep is " ", which makes the comma seperated words to join with a space in between.

End Argument

Run another python script after copying the following content.

print("Hello", "World", end = "-")
print("Second Sentence")

The output will be like this.

Hello World-Second Sentence

The default value for end argument is "\n" which prints the second print statement in a new line