Thomas Jollans <t...@tjol.eu> writes: > Then riddle me this: > > if """\"""""" is equivalent to "" + "\"" + "" + "", then why isn't > """ \""" """ equivalent to "" + " \"" + " " + ""?
Who can say? I was only asked for an explanation, not a consistent one :-) Perhaps it's a micro-optimisation, to create more empty strings that can be discarded quickly. Perhaps not. > As I said earlier: I initially thought the way you're thinking, but got > stuck at that question and had to back-track my reasoning :-) I was not hindered by the burden to make my explanation work for everything, just for the one example presented. This allowed me to quickly get back to feeding my goldfish. -- \ “What do religious fundamentalists and big media corporations | `\ have in common? They believe that they own culture, they are so | _o__) self-righteous about it …” —Nina Paley, 2011 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
