Unexpected string behaviour: txt = 'this' ' works'
c d saunter
christopher.saunter at durham.ac.uk
Wed Feb 11 06:26:36 EST 2009
Bruno Desthuilliers (bruno.42.desthuilliers at websiteburo.invalid) wrote:
: c d saunter a écrit :
: > I did a double take when debugging an error the other day. My
: > problem was missing out a comma when building a list of strings.
: >
: > Much to my surprise the offending code still executed to cause
: > problems later on:
: >
: >>>> txt = 'this', 'works'
: >>>> print txt
: > ('this', 'works')
: > # As expected
: >>>> txt = 'this' 'works'
: >>>> print txt
: > thisworks
: > # Eh?
: >
: > I have never seen this behaviour before, but it works in Python 2.2.1
: > and 2.5.4 so I guess it's meant to be there. I assume it is a feature
: > of the compiler.
: >
: > Any thoughts?
: http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#string-literal-concatenation
Ahh. Thanks.
Chris
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