Unexpected string behaviour: txt = 'this' ' works'

bearophileHUGS at lycos.com bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Wed Feb 11 07:16:03 EST 2009


christopher.saun... at durham.ac.uk (c d saunter):

>I assume it is a feature of the compiler.<

Yes it's a bug-prone antifeature that's probably a relic from C that
doesn't have a concatenation operator among strings as Python does
(+). So in Python it saves you to use + at the cost of possible bugs.

Bye,
bearophile



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