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Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Iteration

Posted by Daniel Yoo
Daniel Yoo
1,779 Points

Why doesn't print function allow commas instead of plus sign?

In the code:

print("Books:") for book in books: print("* "+book)

Why can't I write instead print("* ", book) for the last line? It gives me an error from the challenge on the next page. Thanks.

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,268 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,268 Points

I'm not sure which challenge you are doing, but one difference when giving "print" multiple arguments is that it adds a space between them. So where you need a space beside the asterisk when concatenating, having one there when using two arguments would create too much space between the items.