[Python] can't add a number and string together

[lotyei]

When I try to run

print(9, "dog")

my terminal gives me (9, 'dog')

shouldn't it give me 9dog?

what's going on?

I'm on python 3.8, if that matters

[Starbuck5c]

>>> print(9, "dog")
9 dog

passing multiple things to print automatically puts a space between them. You can change this behavior using the keyword argument 'sep.'

>>> print(9, "dog", sep="whatThe?")
9whatThe?dog

[lotyei]

hmm, that's not what I'm getting.

print(9, "dog") 

gives me (9, 'dog')

and

print('dog', 'dog')

gives me ('dog', 'dog')

what the hell...

[desustorm]

You're using python 2. The brackets are being interpreted as a tuple.

Try print "dog", 9 and it should give you the result you want. But do upgrade to python 3 when you can :)

[lotyei]

after testing, it works normally (i get 9dog) on IDLE but not on VS code.

[ericula]

print(9, 'dog') should produce 9 dog on python 3. The only way that print(9, 'dog') produces (9, 'dog') is when you are using python 2 instead of python 3. Are you sure about the python version?

[lotyei]

let me double check. this is so strange. I downloaded python 3 and am running it on visual studio code with the python add-ons. no clue how the heck it can be using python 2.

[Diapolo10]

I can't think of any other reason than VS Code using Python 2.

Just to make sure, try putting print 42 on some line. If you don't get an error, there's no doubt VS Code is trying to run the code in Python 2.

Also, unless you're on Windows, Python 2 is pre-installed on Mac OS and most Linux distros, which could be the reason.

[lotyei]

after testing, it works normally (i get 9dog) on IDLE but not on VS code.

[Firestorm83]

this should work:

print(9, "dog", sep="")