On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 01:43:53PM +0100, Søren Pilgård wrote: [...] > I have also experienced beginners asking why you can do `x = "abc" > "def"` but not `a = "abc"; b = "def"; x = a b` and then you have to > either explain them the differences between strings and string > literals or just tell them to always use `+`.
If you tell them to "always use `+`", you are teaching them to be cargo-cult coders who write code they don't understand for reasons they don't know. Life is too short to learn *everything*, I know that, and I've certainly copied lots of code I don't understand (and hoped I'd never need to debug it!). If that makes me a cargo-cult coder too, so be it. But never over something as simple as the difference between names a and b, and string literals "abc", "def". -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
