Python 3 - Second Edition

3.9    Screen Outputs

Although we’ll often draw on the interactive mode, our goal is to write real Python programs as quickly as possible. It’s a special feature of the interactive mode that the value of an entered expression is automatically output. In a normal program, on the other hand, screen outputs must be generated by the programmer explicitly. To output the value of a variable, Python uses the print function:

>>> print(1.2)1.2  

Note that while print outputs values, the automatic output of the interactive mode outputs representations, i.e. predominantly literals. For example, automatic output writes the value of a string in quotation marks while print doesn’t:

>>> "Hello World"'Hello World'>>> print("Hello World")Hello World  

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