assigning multi-line strings to variables

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:17:42 +1000, Lie Ryan wrote:

>> Consider that the concatenation language feature probably is there
>> because it's useful (e.g. it preserves indentation and allows per line
>> comments).
> 
> No, the implicit concatenation is there because Python didn't always
> have triple quoted string.

Do you have a source for that?

Both triple-quoted strings and implicit concatenation go back to at least 
Python 1.4:

http://docs.python.org/release/1.4/tut/node71.html
http://docs.python.org/release/1.4/tut/node70.html



-- 
Steven