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why is the output of s='hello' > print (*s) > h e l l o and not hello ?

15th Oct 2020, 1:59 PM
Curious Ant
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because the star (*) unpacks an iterable. And all a string is is an array (or list) of characters you basically did this: s = ['h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o'] print(*s) # output h e l l o
15th Oct 2020, 2:07 PM
Slick
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The print function prints every argument you give it separated by a space. Example: print('Hello', 'World') Both strings will be separated by a space. *, as Slick said, 'unpacks' s and passes all the letters separately as args. You can change the default space with the parameter sep: print('Hel', 'lo', sep='*') Now instead of a space, * is used as the separator, and the output will be 'Hel*lo'. And this, of course, also works when you unpack an iterable and pass it to print.
15th Oct 2020, 2:18 PM
HonFu
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Haha, HonFu I honestly only knew that cause you dropped that knowledge a while ago. And I've seen the "sep" param, but never used it, thanks for the lesson again man!
15th Oct 2020, 2:27 PM
Slick
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