[FIXED] Delete newline at end of for loop -- python 2.x

Issue

I have been doing exercises on codeabbey.com to brush the rust off, and I keep running into this small, but still frustrating problem. I want my programs to spit out one line of n items of output and then a newline for any n lines of given input, but my programs all spit out one line of (n-1) items, a newline, and then the last item.

Here is an example in which I am given first a number of pairs to be processed, then the pairs themselves, and I am tasked with finding the minimum (Please forgive my lazy use of pre-existing functions):

quanta = int(raw_input())
print "\n"

for i in xrange(quanta):
    a = raw_input().split()
    a = map(int, a)
    print min(a),

and this input copy-pasted into the command line:

3
5 3
2 8
100 15

I expect this output:

3 2 15

but instead I am getting this output:

3 2
15

My question then is how do I get rid of that trailing newline?

Solution

I was able to reproduce. With this in the copy buffer:

3
5 3
2 8
100 15

when running the script and pasting this without trailing newline the script stays at a = raw_input().split() of the third input line, but already outputted the min of the two lines above (3 and 2), so when you hit newline then raw_input enters the newline and the last min (15) is printed.

One solution is to only print at the end:

quanta = int(raw_input())
print "\n"

res = []
for i in xrange(quanta):
    a = raw_input().split()
    a = map(int, a)
    res.append(min(a))

print(" ".join(str(i) for i in res))

The other is to also include the trailing newline in the copy-buffer (on MacOs you need to drag down the mouse a bit under the line to get the trailing newline selected)

Answered By - hansaplast