A c.l.p question about docstring formatting got me curious about something. http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.4/ref/string-catenation.html states that: Multiple adjacent string literals (delimited by whitespace), possibly using different quoting conventions, are allowed, and their meaning is the same as their concatenation. Thus, "hello" 'world' is equivalent to "helloworld". This isn't quite true, since the following doesn't work: def some_func(): """Doc string line 1 (the only line, surprisingly)\n""" """Doc string line 2, except it isn't.""" It seems like an odd quirk that the compile-time concatenation of string literals doesn't work for docstrings. I had a bit of trawl through the docs and the archive with Google, but couldn't find anything that stated whether this behaviour was deliberate or accidental. So, can anyone satisfy my idle curiousity as to whether this was a deliberate design choice, or an accident of the implementation? Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@email.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- http://boredomandlaziness.skystorm.net