Bug or feature: double strings as one

[Diez B. Roggisch]

durumdara schrieb:
> Hi!
> 
> I found an interesting thing in Python.
> Today one of my "def"s got wrong result.
> 
> When I checked the code I saw that I miss a "," from the list.
> 
> l = ['ó' 'Ó']
> 
> Interesting, that Python handle them as one string.
> 
> print ['ó' 'Ó']
> ['\xf3\xd3']
> 
> I wanna ask that is a bug or is it a feature?
> 
> In other languages, like Delphi (Pascal), Javascript, SQL, etc., I
> must concatenate the strings with some sign, like "+" or "||".
> 
> This technic is avoid the mistyping, like today. But in python I can
> miss the concat sign, and I got wrong result...

It's a feature. It is sometimes used in cases where you want to split a 
longer text into several lines, but without introducing newlines.

like this (the parentheses are there for the parser not to puke):


foo = ("foobarbaz"
        "padamm")

It has the potential to produce errors as you have seen them, though.

Diez