assigning multi-line strings to variables

MRAB python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Wed Apr 28 21:16:46 EDT 2010


Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> 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
> 
The page here:

     http://svn.python.org/projects/python/branches/py3k/Misc/HISTORY

says release 1.0.2 (4 May 1994).



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