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

May 11, 2013


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On 11 May 2013 00:31, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org> wrote:
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MRAB writes:
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I think I'd go more for a triple-quoted string with a prefix for
dedenting and removing newlines:
f = [m'''
      abc
      def
      ghi
     ''']
I think the prefix idea is obvious - and I used the letter "i" in my message -
for "idented" -0 it may be a pooorr choice indeed since it looks like
it may not be
noticed sometimes close to the quotes.
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where f == ['abcdefghi'].
Cool enough, but
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...
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f = [m'''
...       abc
...        def
...        ghi
...      ''']
f == ['abc def ghi']
True
In my porposal, this woukld yield a Syntax Error - any contents of the
string would have to be
indented to the same level of the prefix. Sorry if that was not clear enough.
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Worse,
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f = [m'''
...       abc
...       def
...       ghi
...      ''']
f == ['abc def ghi']
True
Yikes!  (Yeah, I know about consenting adults.)
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Re: [Python-ideas] Implicit string literal concatenation considered harmful?

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