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Subject: 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