Re: [Python-ideas] Implicit string literal concatenation considered harmful?

Ezio Melotti, 10.05.2013 22:40:

['this is a ' 'long string', 'this is another ' 'long string'] I agree that requiring extra (...) in this case is reasonable, i.e.: [('this is a ' 'long string'), ('this is another ' 'long string')]

-1, IMHO this makes it more verbose and thus harder to read, because it takes a while to figure out that the parentheses are not meant to surround tuples in this case, which would be the one obvious reason to spot them inside of a list. In a way, it's the reverse of the "spot the missing comma" problem, more like a "spot that there's really no comma". That's just as bad, if you ask me. Stefan