On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:57:31 -0800, bearophileHUGS wrote:
> Jason:
>> It's such a minor optimization, that you probably wouldn't see any
>> effect on your program.
>
>>>> from dis import dis
>>>> def f():
> ... return 'This is ' + 'an example.' ...
>>>> dis(f)
> 2 0 LOAD_CONST 3 ('This is an example.')
> 3 RETURN_VALUE
That's a feature of the CPython keyhole optimizer, not a language
feature. I expect that if you try that same thing in various other
Pythons (and earlier versions of CPython) you'll get a different result.
And like all optimizations, it's not a language feature, it's subject to
removal without notice if necessary.
If you want guaranteed implicit concatenation, you need to leave out the
plus operator. That is a language feature.
And I do call it a feature. I find it useful, and I've never run into any
bugs caused by it, and if I did, I expect they would show up quickly:
x = "foo", "bar"
y = "foo" "bar"
x is a tuple of length 2, y is a string of length 6. You'll soon notice
the difference. Since it only effects literals, it should be easy enough
to find.
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Steven
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