Hey all, I've been forwarding (and trying to CC) our list on those messages as much as possible. In case any of you weren't already subscribed to the python-ideas list, Guido has proposed that python no longer allow the following: foo = ('abc' 'def' ) Mainly because it can cause confusing TypeErrors for the functions taking a certain number of arguments. There are a few ideas floating around that thread, one of which is that we (the code-quality tool authors) provide warnings or errors when someone does: foo('a' 'b') i.e., uses the implicit concatenation on a single line. I'm personally far more in favor of this (mainly for older versions of python) + a SyntaxError for newer versions but to allow the multi-line concatenation to continue. Some are in favor of adding a new string prefix like `m` or `s`. All of this aside, we may have to start including support for this in our tools so I wanted everyone to be well aware of the discussion. Hopefully people will continue the trend I've tried to start of CC'ing code-quality but that likely won't happen. Cheers, Ian