Lists And Missing Commas

[Aaron Gray]

On Tuesday, 24 December 2019, Tim Daneliuk <info at tundraware.com> wrote:

> If I do this:
>
>     foo = [ "bar", "baz" "slop", "crud" ]
>
> Python silently accepts that and makes the middle term "bazslop".


Strings concatinate over line endings so this case is only sensible really.


>
> BUT, if I do this:
>
>     foo = [ "bar", "baz" 1, "crud" ]
>
> or this:
>
>     foo = [ "bar", 2 1, "crud" ]
>
> The interpreter throws a syntax error.
>
> This is more of an intellectual curiosity than anything else, but why do
> strings silently
> concatenate like that, while all other case blow up with an error.  i.e.,
> What is about
> the language the promotes this behavior.  At first blush, it seems
> inconsistent, but what
> do I know ...
>
>
>
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