writing simple programs the answer is the last statement illustrates how string literal expressions are often used in print statements as convenient way of labeling output notice that successive print statements normally display on separate lines of the screen bare print(no parametersproduces blank line of output underneathwhat' really happening is that the print function automatically appends some ending text after all of the supplied expressions are printed by defaultthat ending text is special marker character (denoted as "\ "that signals the end of line we can modify that behavior by including an additional parameter that explicitly overrides this default this is done using special syntax for named or keyword parameters template for the print statement including the keyword parameter to specify the ending-text looks like thisprint(end="\ "the keyword for the named parameter is end and it is given value using notationsimilar to variable assignment notice in the template have shown its default valuethe end-of-line character this is standard way of showing what value keyword parameter will have when it is not explicitly given some other value one common use of the end parameter in print statements is to allow multiple prints to build up single line of output for exampleprint("the answer is"end="print( produces the single line of outputthe answer is notice how the output from the first print statement ends with space ("rather than an endof-line the output from the second statement appears immediately following the space assignment statements one of the most important kinds of statements in python is the assignment statement we've already seen number of these in our previous examples simple assignment the basic assignment statement has this form