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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
