[Python-Dev] String literal concatenation & docstrings
Brett C.
bac at OCF.Berkeley.EDU
Mon Nov 29 03:51:27 CET 2004
Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>>Right. Over-clarification results in docs that read like the
>>>instructions for the holy hand grenade ;-)
>>
>>Well said.
>
>
> Except that now I can't find the adjacent string literals in the
> grammar any more!
>
> I'm looking al http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/ref/grammar.txt
>
> The path goes from primary to atom to literal to stringliteral (and
> from there on into lexical detail) and nowhere does the grammar show
> that multiple string literals are allowed. Adding a single + after
> stringliteral in the expansion for literal would fix this
[SNIP]
But if you look at Grammar/Grammar you will notice that atom goes to STRING+
which should cover this. Is that grammar.txt file generated from
Grammar/Grammar or is it done by hand?
-Brett
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