I was asked to write a program for a class that uses two lists. One list contains the names of 7 people (I used presidents' names), the other contains their 7 phone numbers. The goal of the program is for the user to enter the name of a friend and the program displays that friend's phone number. I have the program working just how I want it, but the output puts an extra space in it that I don't want.The output looks like this:
Your friend George Washington 's phone number is: 249-451-2869
I want to remove the space between "Washington" and "'s" so it reads more naturally. I tried different versions of strip() but could not get rid of the pesky space. Here is the main code for the program:
personName = nameGenerator() #function to allow user to enter name
nameIndex = IsNameInList(personName, Friends) #function that checks the user's input to see if input is #in the name list
print('Your friend',Friends[nameIndex],"\'s phone number is:",Phone_Numbers[nameIndex]) #Friends is name list, Phone_Numbers is numbers list, nameIndex stores the index of the proper name and phone number
print adds spaces between arguments by default; pass sep='' (the empty string) to disable that. You'll need to add back spaces manually where you want them, but it's the minimal change:
print('Your friend ', Friends[nameIndex], "\'s phone number is: ", Phone_Numbers[nameIndex], sep='')
Alternatively, just use an f-string (or any other string formatting technique you prefer) to format it to a single string before printing:
print(f"Your friend {Friends[nameIndex]}'s phone number is: {Phone_Numbers[nameIndex]}")