[Python-checkins] Improve the String tutorial docs (GH-4541)

Mariatta webhook-mailer at python.org
Fri Nov 24 12:28:15 EST 2017


https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/78a5722ae950b80a4b3d13377957f3932195aef3
commit: 78a5722ae950b80a4b3d13377957f3932195aef3
branch: master
author: Will White <D-o80hwnqxkkiqkpelrtx2kb at maildrop.cc>
committer: Mariatta <Mariatta at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2017-11-24T09:28:12-08:00
summary:

Improve the String tutorial docs (GH-4541)

The paragraph that contains example of string literal concatenation was placed
after the section about concatenation using the '+' sign.
Moved the paragraph to the appropriate section.

files:
M Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst

diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst b/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst
index 2fa894a533f..7176d819425 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst
@@ -212,6 +212,13 @@ to each other are automatically concatenated. ::
    >>> 'Py' 'thon'
    'Python'
 
+This feature is particularly useful when you want to break long strings::
+
+   >>> text = ('Put several strings within parentheses '
+   ...         'to have them joined together.')
+   >>> text
+   'Put several strings within parentheses to have them joined together.'
+
 This only works with two literals though, not with variables or expressions::
 
    >>> prefix = 'Py'
@@ -227,13 +234,6 @@ If you want to concatenate variables or a variable and a literal, use ``+``::
    >>> prefix + 'thon'
    'Python'
 
-This feature is particularly useful when you want to break long strings::
-
-   >>> text = ('Put several strings within parentheses '
-   ...         'to have them joined together.')
-   >>> text
-   'Put several strings within parentheses to have them joined together.'
-
 Strings can be *indexed* (subscripted), with the first character having index 0.
 There is no separate character type; a character is simply a string of size
 one::



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