print() is showing quotation marks in results

Question

When the below portion of the script is activated, it shows all the commas and single quotes (and parentheses) in the results.

print(name, \'has been alive          


        

Answer 1

You need from __future__ import print_function.

In Python 2.x what you are doing is interpreted as printing a tuple, while you are using the 3.x syntax.

Example:

>>> name = 'Ryan'
>>> days = 3
>>> print(name, 'has been alive for', days, 'days.')
('Ryan', 'has been alive for', 3, 'days.')
>>> from __future__ import print_function
>>> print(name, 'has been alive for', days, 'days.', sep=', ')
Ryan, has been alive for, 3, days.