[Python-ideas] Re: Ampersand operator for strings

Steven D'Aprano writes:

I like the look of the & operator for concatenation, so I want to like this proposal. But I think I will need to see real world code to understand when it would be useful.

I have to second that motion. Pretty much any time I'm constructing lines containing variable text, each string value arrives stripped and I far more often want padding of variable width values rather than space compression. I admit that I use M-SPC (aka just-one-space) lot in Emacsen, but I can't recall wanting it in a program in any language.