It is clear that just using 'print' with variable names is relatively uncontrollable. However, I thought that using a format string would reign the problem in and give the desired output.
Must I resort to sys.stdout.write() to control output? $ python Python 2.4.1 (#1, Jul 19 2005, 14:16:43) [GCC 4.0.0 20050519 (Red Hat 4.0.0-8)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> s = 'now is the time' >>> for c in s: ... print c, ... n o w i s t h e t i m e >>> for c in s: ... print "%c" % (c), ... n o w i s t h e t i m e >>> for c in s: ... print "%1c" % (c), ... n o w i s t h e t i m e -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list