[Python-Dev] String concatenation

[Michael Foord]

Stavros Korokithakis wrote:
> Hello,
> is concatenation of adjacent strings a useful feature? So far the only 
> use case I've seen is causing me endless hours of debugging when I 
> forget the comma in a tuple of strings, like so:
>
> ("first",
>  "second"
>  "third")
>
> Which then becomes a tuple of two items, instead of three. It would 
> have been much better if it produced an error. Is there any good 
> reason that this feature exists, or would it be better if it were 
> removed?

It can be a very useful feature.

See the rejected PEP 3126 for a discussion:

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3126/

Michael Foord

>
> Regards,
> Stavros Korokithakis
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