[issue31906] String literals next to each other does not cause error

Mariatta Wijaya added the comment: What Dmitry said :) I'm closing this as "not a bug". -- nosy: +Mariatta resolution: -> not a bug stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed versions: -Python 2.7, Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6

[issue31906] String literals next to each other does not cause error

Dmitry Kazakov added the comment: This is a documented feature: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#string-literal-concatenation And yes, it was discussed before: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2013-May/020527.html -- nosy:

[issue31906] String literals next to each other does not cause error

Change by Sam Lobel : -- type: -> behavior ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue31906] String literals next to each other does not cause error

New submission from Sam Lobel : This seems too obvious to have been missed, but also too strange behaviour to be on purpose. The following works for some reason (note there's no + between the words) >>> variable = "first" "second" >>> print(variable) "firstsecond" In a