Barry A. Warsaw <ba...@python.org> added the comment:

On May 05, 2012, at 01:25 AM, R. David Murray wrote:

>I've always wondered why the code did that.  If Barry doesn't have a good
>reason for it, I'll refactor it at some point.

A long time ago, Tim (IIRC) expressed an opinion that using the variable makes
the code more readable.  After having seen so much code that uses the string
literals over the years, I wholeheartedly agree with that opinion.

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