What's the difference between using a string and using the "print" command?

Answer 1

While using the command line interface of Python ( when you see the >>>) the print command will style your output by stripping out surrounding quote marks.

There is no huge difference on the command line interface really but when you start writing other programs you will tend to use print when you want to output some string.

Answer 2

Reasonable question Renato and good answer Rob!