On 14/03/18 12:18, Facundo Batista wrote:
What would you think about formally descouraging the following idiom?
long_string = (
"some part of the string "
"with more words, actually is the same "
"string that the compiler puts together")
-1. I use it a fair bit, and prefer it to explicit concatenation. But
then I come from C, so I'm used to it.
> Note that there's no penalty in adding the '+' between the strings,
> those are resolved at compilation time.
Is that assertion true? In all Python compilers? I would expect the
constant string implicit concatenation to produce single constants
efficiently, but explicit concatenation doing the constant folding is a
much less sure bet.
--
Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd
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