On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:01 PM, R. David Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > I think it is an important and subtle point that this happens at "compile > time" rather than "run time". Subtle in that it is not at all obvious > (as this question demonstrates), and important in that it does have > performance implications (even if those are trivial in most cases). > So I think it would be worth saying "implicitly converted to a single > string literal when the source is parsed", or something like that.
That kind of fine detail is what the language reference is for - the distinction really doesn't matter most of the time. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com