[Python-ideas] Implicit String Concatenation (original) (raw)

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Wed Apr 11 16:21:47 CEST 2007

Eoghan Murray schrieb:

I heard the call for the P3K PEP April deadline, so I thought I better get this sent off!

When I was first exposed to Python, I was delighted that I could do the following; >> "Hello" ' world' 'Hello world' This turned to confusion when I tried; >> domain = " world" >> "hello" domain Syntax Error ... Invalid Syntax My proposal for Python3K is to allow string-concatenation via juxtaposition between string-literals, string-variables and expressions that evaluate to strings. Juxtaposition has some precedence in Python (the example above) and also in the awk programming language.

No, please! The concatenation of string literals is done in the parser. Your proposal would move that to runtime and introduce a "whitespace operator". How would you spell that? How would you overload it? etc.

Georg

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