[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-453728 ] Tutorial: string lits & cont. lines

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Bugs item #453728, was opened at 2001-08-21 06:57
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Category: Documentation
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Assigned to: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Summary: Tutorial: string lits & cont. lines

Initial Comment:
The text on string literals and continuation lines
(esp. the example) assumes a good understanding of how
string literals and continuation lines work in C; this
needs to be clarified programmers with no experience in
C-like languages.

(Based on a comment sent to python-docs.)

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>Comment By: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Date: 2001-09-06 11:44

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Clarified interaction of continuation lines and string
literals in Doc/tut/tut.tex revision 1.149.

It's not clear that there's actually a problem relating to
the tokenization comment added anonymously.

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2001-08-27 07:28

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I don't remember what the tutorial said but cont. lines
work differently in python than C and I don't see the
reason.  For example it would be nice to split integer
literals, like:

a=123\
456\
78L

If the number is large (100's of digits) it's nice to be
able to split it across several lines.  Of course one could
enter it as a string split across several lines, but that
makes the .pyc file larger since the strings will appear in
it rather than the marshalled long int.
(This example is from a comp.lang.python discussion).


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