Illegal literal or not?

[Laura Creighton]

> Gerrit Holl wrote:
> > 
> > Peter Hansen schreef op zaterdag 25 januari om 20:32:03 +0000:
> > > Mel Wilson wrote:
> > > > >>> print "'" + '"' + "Let's try this!" + '"' + ', they said.' + "'"
> > > > >>> print ''.join (["'", '"', "Let's try this!", '"', ', they said.', "
> '"])
> > 
> > > >>> print '"'.join(["'", "Let's try this!", ", they said.'"])
> > > '"Let's try this!", they said.'
> > 
> > >>> print "'"'"'"Let's try this!"'"'', they said.'"'"
> > '"Let's try this!", they said.'
> > 
> > :)
> 
> Oooohh, very slick.  Automatic concatenation of adjacent string
> literals. :-)
> 
> <hat mode="doffed"/>
> 
> -Peter
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I think that it is more readable like this:

>>> print "'" '"' "Let's try this!" '"' ', they said.' "'"
'"Let's try this!", they said.'

Laura Creighton