[Python-ideas] Implicit string literal concatenation considered harmful?

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat May 11 02:43:48 CEST 2013


Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> As for "+", saying it is a replacement is a bit simplified, because
> the syntax definition (for method calls) or operator precedence (for
> e.g. %-formatting) may force you to add parentheses.

Maybe we could turn ... into a "string continuation
operator":

    print("This is example %d of a line that is "...
          "too long" % example_number)

-- 
Greg



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