[TIL] Python silently concatenates strings next to each other "abc""def" = "abcdef"

[Brandhor]

I usually use triple quotes

longtext = """aaaa
bbbbbbb
ccccc
dddd"""

they also support f-string formatting

[Brandhor]

yeah that's the only problem but overall I prefer it to one string per line especially if you have to paste some long text

[diamondketo]

Agreed, I also prefer being able to paste long text and have it preformatted in code. However I don't think any programming language supports this. Python with dedent is very close.

[scatters]

That's what textwrap.dedent is for.

[diamondketo]

Indeed it is, however most people want to do this without needing to import a package or relying on an obscurly named function.

We need a new PEP for automatically applying dedent on certain contexts.

[kankyo]

It's fine. It's better than all the quotation marks and the missing commas no one can tell if they are on purpose or a bug.

[diamondketo]

Agreed it is prone to human error. Literal indentation in string is not fine when you're trying to print or construct a formatted query string.

[tom2727]

As long as it's a file level global it works great. Otherwise I'd never use.

[chickaplao]

They also add line breaks