christopher.saun...@durham.ac.uk (c d saunter): >I assume it is a feature of the compiler.<
Yes it's a bug-prone antifeature that's probably a relic from C that doesn't have a concatenation operator among strings as Python does (+). So in Python it saves you to use + at the cost of possible bugs. Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
