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author | Will White <D-o80hwnqxkkiqkpelrtx2kb@maildrop.cc> | 2017-11-24 17:28:12 (GMT) |
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committer | Mariatta <Mariatta@users.noreply.github.com> | 2017-11-24 17:28:12 (GMT) |
commit | 78a5722ae950b80a4b3d13377957f3932195aef3 (patch) | |
tree | 9637dd2209e92332ace8687ec89a1e28910d0d4b | |
parent | 0f86cd38f4a38f25a4aed3759a654a4b7fa49031 (diff) | |
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Improve the String tutorial docs (GH-4541)
The paragraph that contains example of string literal concatenation was placed
after the section about concatenation using the '+' sign.
Moved the paragraph to the appropriate section.
-rw-r--r-- | Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst b/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst index 2fa894a..7176d81 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst @@ -212,6 +212,13 @@ to each other are automatically concatenated. :: >>> 'Py' 'thon' 'Python' +This feature is particularly useful when you want to break long strings:: + + >>> text = ('Put several strings within parentheses ' + ... 'to have them joined together.') + >>> text + 'Put several strings within parentheses to have them joined together.' + This only works with two literals though, not with variables or expressions:: >>> prefix = 'Py' @@ -227,13 +234,6 @@ If you want to concatenate variables or a variable and a literal, use ``+``:: >>> prefix + 'thon' 'Python' -This feature is particularly useful when you want to break long strings:: - - >>> text = ('Put several strings within parentheses ' - ... 'to have them joined together.') - >>> text - 'Put several strings within parentheses to have them joined together.' - Strings can be *indexed* (subscripted), with the first character having index 0. There is no separate character type; a character is simply a string of size one:: |