[Python-ideas] Implicit String Concatenation

[Georg Brandl]

Eoghan Murray schrieb:
> I heard the call for the P3K PEP April deadline, so I thought I better 
> get this sent off!
> 
> When I was first exposed to Python, I was delighted that I could do the 
> following;
>> >> "Hello" ' world'
>     'Hello world'
> This turned to confusion when I tried;
>> >> domain = " world"
>> >> "hello" domain
> Syntax Error ... Invalid Syntax
> 
> My proposal for Python3K is to allow string-concatenation via 
> juxtaposition between string-literals, string-variables and expressions 
> that evaluate to strings.
> Juxtaposition has some precedence in Python (the example above) and also 
> in the awk programming language.

No, please! The concatenation of string literals is done in the parser.
Your proposal would move that to runtime and introduce a "whitespace operator".
How would you spell that? How would you overload it? etc.

Georg

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