[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: Close #4966: revamp the sequence docs in order to better explain the state of

[Nick Coghlan]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:01 PM, R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:
> I think it is an important and subtle point that this happens at "compile
> time" rather than "run time".  Subtle in that it is not at all obvious
> (as this question demonstrates), and important in that it does have
> performance implications (even if those are trivial in most cases).
> So I think it would be worth saying "implicitly converted to a single
> string literal when the source is parsed", or something like that.

That kind of fine detail is what the language reference is for - the
distinction really doesn't matter most of the time.

Cheers,
Nick.

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