🔒 Hi, really simple question. (beginner)

[lofty roost]

@rigid creek

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[woeful night]

What are you expecting to happen here?

[rigid creek]

cat

to program to print cat

[woeful night]

for that, you need print()

!d print

[lofty roost]

print

print(*objects, sep=' ', end='\n', file=None, flush=False)```
Print *objects* to the text stream *file*, separated by *sep* and followed by *end*. *sep*, *end*, *file*, and *flush*, if present, must be given as keyword arguments.

All non-keyword arguments are converted to strings like [`str()`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str) does and written to the stream, separated by *sep* and followed by *end*. Both *sep* and *end* must be strings; they can also be `None`, which means to use the default values. If no *objects* are given, [`print()`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#print) will just write *end*.

The *file* argument must be an object with a `write(string)` method; if it is not present or `None`, [`sys.stdout`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/sys.html#sys.stdout) will be used. Since printed arguments are converted to text strings, [`print()`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#print) cannot be used with binary mode file objects. For these, use `file.write(...)` instead.

Similar names: 2to3fixer.print

[woeful night]

Try this:

spam = ['cat', 'bat', 'rat', 'elephant']
print(spam[0])

[honest drift]

The book may assume you're in the REPL.

In which case 'cat' would be displayed.

Without the print.

[rigid creek]

probably

i was losing my mind

but what if

spam = ['cat', 'bat', 'rat', 'elephant']
print(spam[0:2])

it prints it with [ and '

what should i do to remove that

['cat']

[honest drift]

How would you like it displayed?

[rigid creek]

cat

[honest drift]

There are different things you might do depending on how many things you're working with.

You've given one example but asked a question about something else that doesn't match the example.

I would suggest you learn about f-strings and str.format.

I would suggest learning about variable unpacking.

[rigid creek]

okay

[honest drift]

Including starred unpacking.

I would also suggest learning about starring arguments in print.

When you subscript like obj[0], you're getting the object at that index position. When you subscript with a slice, obj[:2] / obj[0:2], you're not getting the element, but (depending on obj's type) a list.

[rigid creek]

oh my bad

i just figured that

thank you a lot

[lofty roost]

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