Minor, minor style question

[Quinn Dunkan]

On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:05:41 -0800, Emile van Sebille <emile at fenx.com> wrote:
>claird at starbase.neosoft.com (Cameron Laird) writes:
>
>> Why would I prefer
>>   string = ""
>>   string = string + "abc "
>>   string = string + "def "
>>   string = string + "xyz"
>> over
>>   string = "abc " + \
>>       "def " + \
>>       "xyz"
>> ?
>
>Isn't the question about line continuations?  I don't use them (except
>on rare occasions), preferring to do something more like:
>
>string = ('abc' +
>    'def' +
>    'xzy')

Or, if they are all string constants:

string = ('abc'
    'dev'
    'xyz')