Why does the Python repl print different things for None? [closed]

Question

Today I was playing with a Python dict and I found something weird:

>>> print {}.get('non-existant-key')

>>> a = {}.get('non-existant-key')
>>> print a
None
>>>

Why does the repl print an empty space with the first print and "None" after taking the step of storing the value in the variable a? The thing it tries to print is the same in both cases, so why is there be a difference?

Answer 1

Okay, turns out it wasn't the behaviour of the Python repl, but the (for the rest excellent) bpython repl which I always use. I didn't realise I was using bpython instead of the vanilla python when I was testing this.

In the regular pyton repl it all works as expected. I'll file a bug with bpython about this.