Tres Seaver <tseaver <at> palladion.com> writes:
>
> -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.
In many cases there is no runtime concatenation cost.
>>> def f():
... return "first" + "second"
...
>>> import dis
>>> dis.dis(f)
2 0 LOAD_CONST 3 ('firstsecond')
3 RETURN_VALUE
Regards
Antoine.
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