"bat"man'batmanthis is called concatenation as you can seethe effect is to create new string that is the result of "gluingthe strings together you'll see lot more string operations in output statements now that you have the basic building blocksidentifier and expressionyou are ready for more complete description of various python statements you already know that information can be displayed on screen using python' built-in function print so farwe have looked at few examplesbut have not yet explained the print function in detail like all programming languagespython has precise set of rules for the syntax (formand semantics (meaningof each statement computer scientists have developed sophisticated notations called meta-languages for describing programming languages in this book we will rely on simple template notation to illustrate the syntax of various statements since print is built-in functiona print statement has the same general form as any other function invocation we type the function name print followed by parameters listed in parentheses here is how the print statement looks using our template notationprint(print(these two templates show two forms of the print statement the first indicates that print statement can consist of the function name print followed by parenthesized sequence of expressionswhich are separated by commas the angle bracket notation (in the template is used to indicate "slotsthat are filled in by other fragments of python code the name inside the brackets indicates what is missingexpr stands for an expression the ellipses ("indicate an indefinite series (of expressionsin this caseyou don' actually type the dots the second version of the statement shows that it' also legal to have print without any expressions to print as far as semantics are concerneda print statement displays information in textual form any supplied expressions are evaluated left to rightand the resulting values are displayed on line of output in left-to-right fashion by defaulta single blank space character is placed between the displayed values as an examplethis sequence of print statementsprint( + print( print(print("the answer is" produces this output