'concatenating''strings'

[Will Stuyvesant]

Python 2.2.1 (#34, Apr  9 2002, 19:34:33) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
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>>> '1''2'
'12'
>>> '1''2''3'
'123'
>>> '1'''
'1'
>>> '''3'
KeyboardInterrupt
>>> # that did hang with the cursor on the next line so I had to press
CTRL-c
>>> _
'1'
>>> ''+'3'
'3'

Totally unimportant but unexpected behaviour.
Looks like you can not concatenate the empty string '' to 'something'
without using the + operator.


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