On 04/29/10 20:40, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Lie Ryan wrote: >> No, the implicit concatenation is there because Python didn't always >> have triple quoted string. Nowadays it's an artifact and triple quoted >> string is much preferred. > > I don't agree. I often use implicit concatenation when I'm > writing a format string that won't fit on one source line, > because it allows me to fit it into the surrounding indentation > structure without introducing unwanted spaces into the string. > > Both tecnhiques have their places. >
That statement should be quantified with "for large chunks of text". Format string is typically 2-3 lines at most, not enough to qualify as large chunk. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
