I heard the call for the P3K PEP April deadline, so I thought I better get this sent off! When I was first exposed to Python, I was delighted that I could do the following;
"Hello" ' world' 'Hello world' This turned to confusion when I tried; domain = " world" "hello" domain Syntax Error ... Invalid Syntax
My proposal for Python3K is to allow string-concatenation via juxtaposition between string-literals, string-variables and expressions that evaluate to strings. Juxtaposition has some precedence in Python (the example above) and also in the awk programming language. If anyone agrees that this is a good idea, then I'd be happy to write up a PEP explaining why I think that implicit string concatenation is better than overloading the plus operator (which this proposal wouldn't deprecate) and more elegant than template strings or string interpolation. Eoghan
participants (15)
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Adam Atlas -
Collin Winter -
Eoghan Murray -
Georg Brandl -
Greg Ewing -
Ivan Vilata i Balaguer -
Jan Claeys -
Jan Kanis -
Jason Orendorff -
Jim Jewett -
Josiah Carlson -
Neil Toronto -
Ron Adam -
Tal Einat -
Terry Reedy