I have the string "Bob" stored in a variable called name.
I want to print this:
Hello Bob
How do I get that?
Let's say I have the code
name = "Bob"
print ("Hello", name)
This gives
('Hello', 'Bob')
Which I don't want. If I put in the code
name = "Bob"
print "Hello"
print name
This gives
Hello
Bob
Which is also not what I want. I just want plain old
Hello Bob
How do I get that?
I apologize in advance if this is a duplicate or dumb question.
The reason why it's printing unexpectedly is because in Python 2.x, print is a statement, not function, and the parentheses and space are creating a tuple. Print can take parentheses like in Python 3.x, but the problem is the space between the statement and parentheses. The space makes Python interpret it as a tuple. Try the following:
print "Hello ", name
Notice the missing parentheses. print isn't a function that's called, it's a statement. It prints Hello Bob because the first string is and the variable separated by the comma is appended or concatenated to the string that is then printed. There are many other ways to do this in Python 2.x.