Lists And Missing Commas

[Frank Millman]

On 2019-12-24 6:20 AM, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> On 12/23/19 7:52 PM, DL Neil wrote:
>>
>> WebRef: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html
> 
> 
> Yep, that explains it, but it still feels non-regular to me.  From a pointy headed academic
> POV, I'd like to see behavior consistent across types. Again ... what do I know?
> 

 From the Zen, 'Practicality beats purity'.

 From the docs -

"""
String literals that are part of a single expression and have only 
whitespace between them will be implicitly converted to a single string 
literal. That is, ("spam " "eggs") == "spam eggs".
"""

I do not see it as 'concatenation', rather as a way of constructing a 
single string from a number of smaller chunks. The docs talk about 
'whitespace', but I would guess that the use of a single space is 
uncommon. More likely is the use of a newline.

I use this from time to time when constructing long string literals -

long_string = (
     "this is the first chunk "
     "this is the second chunk "
     "etc etc"
     )

My 0.02c

Frank Millman