On 25/08/12 16:53, aklei...@sonic.net wrote:
in sequences of strings to prevent them from being
"silently"<=>"concatenated" if you were to add an entry and forget the
comma.
error if the comma is omitted when adding an entry but I don't understand
the (potential) concatenation problem.
Consider:
>>> 'fred','joe'
('fred', 'joe')
>>> 'fred''joe'
'fredjoe'
>>>
two adjacent strings without a comma get combined into a single string.
Its a feature... mainly a remnant from the C foundations I suspect.
HTH,
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Alan G
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