implicitly concats of adjacent strings does not work with format

Cecil Westerhof Cecil at decebal.nl
Wed Apr 29 08:42:16 EDT 2015


I have the folowing print statements:
    print(
        'Calculating fibonacci_old, fibonacci_memoize and '
        'fibonacci_memoize once for {0} '.format(large_fibonacci))


    print(
        'Calculating fibonacci_old, fibonacci_memoize and '
        'fibonacci_memoize once for {0} '.format(large_fibonacci) +
        'to determine speed increase')

    print(
        'Calculating fibonacci_old, fibonacci_memoize and '
        'to determine speed increase'
        'fibonacci_memoize once for {0} '.format(large_fibonacci))


    print(
        'Calculating fibonacci_old, fibonacci_memoize and '
        'fibonacci_memoize once for {0} '.format(large_fibonacci)
        'to determine speed increase')

The first three work, but the last gives:
        'to determine speed increase')
                                    ^
    SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Not very important, because I can use the second one, but I was just
wondering why it goes wrong.

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Cecil Westerhof
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