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

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sat, 11 May 2013 19:24:02 +0200
"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> 
> This is not a good solution for long lines where you don't want to
> have embedded line endings. Taken from existing code:
> 
> _litmonth = ('(?P<litmonth>'
>              'jan|feb|mar|apr|may|jun|jul|aug|sep|oct|nov|dec|'
>              'mär|mae|mrz|mai|okt|dez|'
>              'fev|avr|juin|juil|aou|aoû|déc|'
>              'ene|abr|ago|dic|'
>              'out'
>              ')[a-z,\.;]*')

For the record, I know this isn't the point of your message, but you're
probably missing 'fév' (accented) above :-)

Regards

Antoine.