Hmm, thanks, although I don't see why it was rejected, since it seems to
me that by using the addition operator or triple-quoting all the use
cases would become clearer and not significantly harder to write, while
the (often silent) errors would not happen any more.
The PEP only mentions that "the feature to be removed isn't all that
harmful, and there are some use cases that would become harder", but I'm
not sure that the "harder use cases" (which ones?) justify the error
potential.
Stavros Korokithakis
Michael Foord wrote:
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?
It can be a very useful feature.
See the rejected PEP 3126 for a discussion:
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3126/
Michael Foord
Regards,
Stavros Korokithakis
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