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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 19:38:53 -0600
Subject: Re: A simple single line, triple-quoted comment is giving syntax error. Why?
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On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> Looks to me that the two string literals each get their own token, and are
> concatenated at a later stage of compilation, not during parsing.

Thanks. The dispute was about expressions, though. I think we're all
in agreement that there are two tokens.