How to cancel new line print in for loop output in python?

Question

Remember: The , character after our print statement means that our next print statement keeps printing on the same line. Let's filter out the letter 'A' from our string.

phrase = "A bird in the hand..."

Do the following for each character in the phrase.

If char is an 'A' or char is an 'a', print 'X', instead of char. Make sure to include the trailing comma.
Otherwise (else:), please print char, with the trailing comma.

For the above question, I got the below code:

phrase = "A bird in the hand..."

for char in phrase:
    if char == 'A' or char =='a':
        print('X')
    else:
        print (char)

The output:

X
 
b
i
r
d
 
i
n
 
t
h
e
 
h
X
n
d
.
.
.

How do I get the output on one line?

The hint about a trailing comma strongly suggests that you are using Python 2 (and aren't very good at reading instructions). You really need to clarify this; unless you specifically indicate otherwise, anyone who hasn't been hiding under a rock for the last couple of years will assume you are asking for help with the currently supported and recommended language, Python 3. — tripleee, Aug 06 '20 at 12:30

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 06 '20 at 11:36

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print(value, end="")

BTW, for your task, you can just:

processed = phrase.replace('A', 'x').replace('a', 'x')
print(processed)

answered Aug 06 '20 at 11:36

Or Y

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Bijin Abraham · Answer 2 · 2020-08-06T11:55:10.127

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Whenever you need an output printed in the same line, all you need to do is to terminate your print function with the argument 'end' in Python3

phrase = "A bird in the hand..."
for char in phrase.lower(): 
    if char =='a': 
        print('X', end="" )
    else: print (char, end="" )

edited Aug 06 '20 at 11:55

answered Aug 06 '20 at 11:47

Bijin Abraham

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@deepak47 did this answer provide a resolution? – Bijin Abraham Aug 06 '20 at 14:37

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 06 '20 at 12:12

Another way to do this is to concatenate each part of the string together and print it all out at once.

finaloutput = “”
phrase = “A bird in the hand...”
for char in phrase.lower():
    if char == “a”:
        finaloutput += X
    else:
        finaloutput += char

print(finaloutput)

How to cancel new line print in for loop output in python?

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