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Stavros Korokithakis wrote:
> Hello,
> is concatenation of adjacent strings a useful feature? So far the only 
> use case I've seen is causing me endless hours of debugging when I 
> forget the comma in a tuple of strings, like so:
> 
> ("first",
>   "second"
>   "third")
> 
> Which then becomes a tuple of two items, instead of three. It would have 
> been much better if it produced an error. Is there any good reason that 
> this feature exists, or would it be better if it were removed?

- -1.  The feature exists to allow adherence to PEP-8, "Limit all lines to
a maximum of 79 characters.", without requiring runtime concatenation
costs.  I use it frequently when assembling and testing message strings,
for instance.


Tres.
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