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Re: n00b question on spacing

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> Also remember when entering long lines of text that strings concatenate
> within parenthesis.
> So,
> ("a, b, c"
> "d, e, f"
> "g, h, i")
>
> Is the same as ("a, b, cd, e, fg, h, i")

There was a recent discussion about this (under "implicit string
concatenation").  It seems this is a part of the python language
specification that was simply undefined.   (A rule probably should be
added to the lexer to make this explicit.)

-- 
MarkJ
Tacoma, Washington

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Re: n00b question on spacing Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com> - 2013-06-22 10:43 -0700
  Re: n00b question on spacing alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2013-06-25 09:48 +1000
    Re: n00b question on spacing Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com> - 2013-06-24 17:22 -0700
    Re: n00b question on spacing Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2013-06-25 12:19 +0100
    Re: n00b question on spacing Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-06-25 21:48 +1000
    Re: n00b question on spacing Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2013-06-25 12:59 +0100
    Re: n00b question on spacing Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-06-25 22:07 +1000

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