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At the end of the last video, we'd got our
nospam program to

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print out the items in each meal.

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Each one was printed out on a separate line, though,
which may not be what you want.

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That's easy to fix - the print function has
some extra arguments that we can use.

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Let's see what the documentation has to say.

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I'm going to go to the built-in functions page, for Python

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Now we've seen this table of built-in functions
before, and it's something you'll want to

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come back to often.

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We're interested in print at the moment, so
click print to see what else it can do.

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That takes us to the function signature for
the print function.

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The first parameter explains that print will
print objects to the file text stream.

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That strange default for file - sys.stdout
- just means the console.

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So that's where our output's been appearing.

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stdout is short for Standard Output.

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Each of the objects that we provide will be
printed, separated by whatever character we

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provide for the sep keyword argument.

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Remembering that the default for sep is a space.

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After all the objects have been printed, end
is printed.

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end defaults to a newline, and you've seen
that we got a new line, after each call to

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print in our code, previously.

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Alright, in the next video we'll swing back to IntelliJ, back to our code, and see some of this in action.

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See you in the next video.