Rob Cliffe writes:
Perhaps where you're not laying out a table,
I'm an economist, laying out tables is what I do. :-) Getting serious:
but constructing a human-readable string?� So ��� s1 + ' ' + s2 + ' ' + s3 or ��� ' '.join((s1, s3, s3)) would become ��� s1 & s2 & s3 saving you a bit of typing.� Just sayin'.
str '+' has long been quite rare in my coding. str concatenation is almost never in an inner loop, or slighly more complex formatting is the point. f-strings and .format save you the type conversion to str. So I don't find that occasional saving at all interesting. A vanishingly small number of my str constructions involve only strs with trivial formatting. What interests me about the proposal is the space-collapsing part, which a naive f-string would do incorrectly if, say, s2 == '' or s3 == '\t\t\ttabs to the left of me'. But where does this space-surrounded str data come from? Steve