Building a multiline string

[Steve Holden]

lallous wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Maybe that's already documented, but it seems the parser accepts to
> build a long string w/o really using the first method:
> 
> # Method1
> x = "line1" + \ # cannot use comments!
> "line2"+ \
> "line3"
> 
> and instead using a list with one element like this:
> 
> # Method2
> x = [
> "line1" # can use comments
> "line2"
> "line3"
> ][0]
> 
> Or:
> # Method3
> x = (
> "line1" # can use comments
> "line2"
> "line3"
> )
> 
> (Not that I don't want new lines in the strings)
> 
> Now should I be using method 2 or 3 in production code?
> 
I should have thought it was pretty obvious that method 2 creates a list
and then performs an indexing operation on it. These are completely
unnecessary operations, which are avoided in method 3 which is a simple
parenthesised expression.

So why anyone would want to adopt method 2, which is also mess clear as
source code, is beyond me.

regards
 Steve
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