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From: Noah Hall <enalicho@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:58:41 +0100
Subject: Re: What is this syntax ?
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On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 2:41 PM, candide <candide@free.invalid> wrote:
> With Python 2.7 :
>
>>>> x="foo"
>>>> print '"'+x+'"'
> "foo"

> What is this curious syntax on line 2 ? Where is it documented ?

Just to make it clear to you what is happening -

>>> x = "foo"
>>> print ' " ' + x + ' " '
 " foo "
>>>

Anyway, it's documented here -
http://docs.python.org/tutorial/introduction.html#strings