[Python-Dev] String concatenation
Tres Seaver
tseaver at palladion.com
Sun Aug 3 20:04:01 CEST 2008
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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?
- -1. The feature exists to allow adherence to PEP-8, "Limit all lines to
a maximum of 79 characters.", without requiring runtime concatenation
costs. I use it frequently when assembling and testing message strings,
for instance.
Tres.
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