introduction

First, what does the word print mean in computer science. In the 1960's computer terminals had a keyboard, but no monitor screen. The data sent to the terminal was printed on paper. So the term print means to show the data to the user, even though today it is displayed on the screen rather than beeing printed on paper.

print() is a function in Python. Put something in the parentheses and it will print on the screen.

print(42)
  

42