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Re: n00b question on spacing

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Date Mon, 24 Jun 2013 17:22:21 -0700
Subject Re: n00b question on spacing
From Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 4:48 PM, alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23/06/2013 3:43 AM, Mark Janssen wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>
> It's part of the language reference, not an accidental artifact:
> http://docs.python.org/2/reference/lexical_analysis.html#string-literal-concatenation

When I say "specification", I mean "specified in the formal notation"
(BNF, etc).  "whitespace" is not defined (otherwise there would be a
line in the token list for "linefeed" and "carriagereturn".

-- 
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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