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61 | Multiple adjacent string literals (delimited by whitespace), possibly | |
62 | using different quoting conventions, are allowed, and their meaning is | |
63 | the same as their concatenation. Thus, <code>"hello" 'world'</code> is | |
64 | equivalent to <code>"helloworld"</code>. This feature can be used to reduce | |
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66 | across long lines, or even to add comments to parts of strings, for | |
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71 | re.compile("[A-Za-z_]" # letter or underscore | |
72 | "[A-Za-z0-9_]*" # letter, digit or underscore | |
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77 | Note that this feature is defined at the syntactical level, but | |
78 | implemented at compile time. The `+' operator must be used to | |
79 | concatenate string expressions at run time. Also note that literal | |
80 | concatenation can use different quoting styles for each component | |
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