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

[Philip Jenvey]

On May 10, 2013, at 10:24 PM, Georg Brandl wrote:

> Am 11.05.2013 01:43, schrieb Philip Jenvey:
>> 
>> On May 10, 2013, at 1:09 PM, Michael Foord wrote:
>> 
>>> On 10 May 2013 20:16, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I'm rather -1. It's quite convenient and I don't want to add some '+'
>>> signs everywhere I use it. I'm sure many people also have long string
>>> literals out there and will have to endure the pain of a dull task to
>>> "fix" their code.
>>> 
>>> However, in your case, foo('a' 'b') could raise a SyntaxWarning, since
>>> the "continuation" is on the same line.
>>> 
>>> I'm with Antoine. I love using implicit concatenation for splitting long literals across multiple lines.
>> 
>> Strongly -1 on this proposal, I also use this quite often.
> 
> -1 here. I use it a lot too, and find it very convenient, and while I could
> live with the change, I think it should have been made together with the lot
> of other syntax changes going to Python 3.

Also note that it was already proposed and rejected for Python 3.

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

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Philip Jenvey