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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