The line:

(Note that one space between each column was added by
the way print works: it always adds spaces between its
arguments.)

in section 7.1 of the tutorial
(http://docs.python.org/dev/tut/node9.html), is false.
 It refers to the command

print '%2d %3d %4d' % (x, x*x, x*x*x)

which produces (if x == 10)

10 100 1000

The two spaces in that output are NOT "added by the way
print works".  Instead, they come from the format
string itself.  If you use

print '%2d%3d%4d' % (x, x*x, x*x*x)

you get

101001000

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The sentence refers to the example above the one you quoted,
which uses the print statement. I made that clear in rev
52053, 52054 (2.4), 52055 (2.5).