How can I print variable and string on same line in Python? [duplicate]

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I am using python to work out how many children would be born in 5 years if a child was born every 7 seconds. The problem is on my last line. How do I get a variable to work when I'm printing text either side of it?

Here is my code:

currentPop = 312032486 oneYear = 365 hours = 24 minutes = 60 seconds = 60 # seconds in a single day secondsInDay = hours * minutes * seconds # seconds in a year secondsInYear = secondsInDay * oneYear fiveYears = secondsInYear * 5 #Seconds in 5 years print fiveYears # fiveYears in seconds, divided by 7 seconds births = fiveYears // 7 print "If there was a birth every 7 seconds, there would be: " births "births"

Be careful in 2020 (common sense, I know :D ). Print has become a function in Python3, needs to be used with brackets now: print(something) (Also Python2 is outdated since this year.) — PythoNic
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Georgy · Accepted Answer · 2020-10-19 10:00:29Z

Use , to separate strings and variables while printing:

print("If there was a birth every 7 seconds, there would be: ", births, "births")

, in print function separates the items by a single space:

>>> print("foo", "bar", "spam") foo bar spam

or better use string formatting:

print("If there was a birth every 7 seconds, there would be: {} births".format(births))

String formatting is much more powerful and allows you to do some other things as well, like padding, fill, alignment, width, set precision, etc.

>>> print("{:d} {:03d} {:>20f}".format(1, 2, 1.1)) 1 002 1.100000 ^^^ 0's padded to 2

Demo:

>>> births = 4 >>> print("If there was a birth every 7 seconds, there would be: ", births, "births") If there was a birth every 7 seconds, there would be: 4 births # formatting >>> print("If there was a birth every 7 seconds, there would be: {} births".format(births)) If there was a birth every 7 seconds, there would be: 4 births

Georgy · Accepted Answer · 2020-10-19 10:02:24Z

Python is a very versatile language. You may print variables by different methods. I have listed below five methods. You may use them according to your convenience.

Example:

a = 1 b = 'ball'

Method 1:

print('I have %d %s' % (a, b))

Method 2:

print('I have', a, b)

Method 3:

print('I have {} {}'.format(a, b))

Method 4:

print('I have ' + str(a) + ' ' + b)

Method 5:

print(f'I have {a} {b}')

The output would be:

I have 1 ball

Decision is related to your programming style: M2 is procedural programming, M3 is object-oriented programming. Keyword for M5 is formatted string literal. String operations like M1 and M4 should be used if needed, which is not the case here (M1 for dictionaries and tuples; M4 e.g. for ascii-art and other formatted output)

TehTris · Accepted Answer · 2022-08-05 04:08:31Z

Two more

The First one

>>> births = str(5) >>> print("there are " + births + " births.") there are 5 births.

When adding strings, they concatenate.

The Second One

Also the format (Python 2.6 and newer) method of strings is probably the standard way:

>>> births = str(5) >>> >>> print("there are {} births.".format(births)) there are 5 births.

This format method can be used with lists as well

>>> format_list = ['five', 'three'] >>> # * unpacks the list: >>> print("there are {} births and {} deaths".format(*format_list)) there are five births and three deaths

or dictionaries

>>> format_dictionary = {'births': 'five', 'deaths': 'three'} >>> # ** unpacks the dictionary >>> print("there are {births} births, and {deaths} deaths".format(**format_dictionary)) there are five births, and three deaths

Edit:

Its 2022 and python3 has f strings now.

>>> x = 15 >>> f"there are {x} births" 'there are 15 births'

Christian Ternus · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-14 21:25:51Z

If you want to work with python 3, it's very simple:

print("If there was a birth every 7 second, there would be %d births." % (births))

Sulfkain · Accepted Answer · 2020-07-10 06:09:52Z

You can either use the f-string or .format() methods

Using f-string

print(f'If there was a birth every 7 seconds, there would be: {births} births')

Using .format()

print("If there was a birth every 7 seconds, there would be: {births} births".format(births=births))

PabTorre · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-18 16:19:53Z

As of python 3.6 you can use Literal String Interpolation.

births = 5.25487 >>> print(f'If there was a birth every 7 seconds, there would be: {births:.2f} births') If there was a birth every 7 seconds, there would be: 5.25 births

enpenax · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-17 17:59:29Z

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You can either use a formatstring:

print "There are %d births" % (births,)

or in this simple case:

print "There are ", births, "births"

answered Jun 17, 2013 at 17:59

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TehTris Over a year ago

be careful if using that second way though, because that is a tuple, not a string.

Mathanraj-Sharma · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-24 10:49:57Z

If you are using python 3.6 or latest, f-string is the best and easy one

print(f"{your_varaible_name}")

VasiliNovikov · Accepted Answer · 2022-08-13 09:51:57Z

Starting from Python-3.8, you can use f-strings with variable name printing!

age = 19 vitality = 17 charisma = 16 name = "Alice" print(f"{name=}, {age=}, {vitality=}, {charisma=}") # name='Alice', age=19, vitality=17, charisma=16

Naming mistakes are almost impossible here! If you add, rename or remove a variable, your debug print will stay correct
The debug line is very concise
Don't worry about alignment. Is the 4-th argument charisma or vitality? Well, you don't care, it's correct regardless.

This is useful to know about, but I don't think it quite connects with the question that was asked.

Pythonbites Programming · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-30 17:17:53Z

You would first make a variable: for example: D = 1. Then Do This but replace the string with whatever you want:

D = 1 print("Here is a number!:",D)

Sufiyan Ghori · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-29 01:53:50Z

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On a current python version you have to use parenthesis, like so :

print ("If there was a birth every 7 seconds", X)

edited May 29, 2018 at 1:53

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Amber · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-17 17:59:11Z

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You can use string formatting to do this:

print "If there was a birth every 7 seconds, there would be: %d births" % births

or you can give print multiple arguments, and it will automatically separate them by a space:

print "If there was a birth every 7 seconds, there would be:", births, "births"

answered Jun 17, 2013 at 17:59

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Bob Uni Over a year ago

thank you for the answer Amber. Can you explain what the 'd' does after the % symbol? thanks

Amber Over a year ago

%d means "format value as an integer". Similarly, %s would be "format value as a string", and %f is "format value as a floating point number". These and more are documented in the portion of the Python manual I linked to in my answer.

Siddharth Dash · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-18 05:46:14Z

use String formatting

print("If there was a birth every 7 seconds, there would be: {} births".format(births)) # Will replace "{}" with births

if you doing a toy project use:

print('If there was a birth every 7 seconds, there would be:' births'births)

or

print('If there was a birth every 7 seconds, there would be: %d births' %(births)) # Will replace %d with births

Manrique · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-17 11:39:32Z

Just use , (comma) in between.

See this code for better understanding:

# Weight converter pounds to kg weight_lbs = input("Enter your weight in pounds: ") weight_kg = 0.45 * int(weight_lbs) print("You are ", weight_kg, " kg")

Debug255 · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-17 18:21:54Z

I copied and pasted your script into a .py file. I ran it as-is with Python 2.7.10 and received the same syntax error. I also tried the script in Python 3.5 and received the following output:

File "print_strings_on_same_line.py", line 16 print fiveYears ^ SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'

Then, I modified the last line where it prints the number of births as follows:

currentPop = 312032486 oneYear = 365 hours = 24 minutes = 60 seconds = 60 # seconds in a single day secondsInDay = hours * minutes * seconds # seconds in a year secondsInYear = secondsInDay * oneYear fiveYears = secondsInYear * 5 #Seconds in 5 years print fiveYears # fiveYears in seconds, divided by 7 seconds births = fiveYears // 7 print "If there was a birth every 7 seconds, there would be: " + str(births) + " births"

The output was (Python 2.7.10):

157680000 If there was a birth every 7 seconds, there would be: 22525714 births

I hope this helps.

Qohelet · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-25 12:18:36Z

Slightly different: Using Python 3 and print several variables in the same line:

print("~~Create new DB:",argv[5],"; with user:",argv[3],"; and Password:",argv[4]," ~~")

Bromount · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-16 07:42:09Z

PYTHON 3

Better to use the format option

user_name=input("Enter your name : ) points = 10 print ("Hello, {} your point is {} : ".format(user_name,points)

or declare the input as string and use

user_name=str(input("Enter your name : )) points = 10 print("Hello, "+user_name+" your point is " +str(points))

print ("Hello, {} your point is {} : ".format(user_name,points) missing closing bracket.

user12927732 · Accepted Answer · 2020-02-19 23:08:12Z

If you use a comma inbetween the strings and the variable, like this:

print "If there was a birth every 7 seconds, there would be: ", births, "births"

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