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[Python-ideas] allow line break at operators

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Sun Sep 18 13:38:33 CEST 2011 
Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> writes:

> Am 18.09.2011 12:22, schrieb Ben Finney:
> > Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel at gmail.com>
> > writes:
> > 
> >> On 4 September 2011 23:39, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> >> > Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> writes:
> >> >
> >> >> How many string literals do you count in the following
> >> >> statement? I count one:
> >> >>
> >> >>     raise HoustonWeHaveAProblemError(
> >> >>         "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,"
> >> >>         " consectetur adipiscing elit.")
> >>
> >> The code object says that there's one string constant in the
> >> compiled function. It says nothing (and knows nothing) about the
> >> number of string literals that made up this string.
> > 
> > Hmm. So how should I be looking to answer the question? My AST-fu is
> > weak.
>
> It is sufficient to look into Grammar/Grammar:

No, my question is how can I introspect the Python runtime state to
compare two statements:

    foo = "spam" "eggs"
    bar = "spam" + "eggs"

and show that the *result as produced by the parser* is that the first
statement has a single string literal on the right hand side, while the
second statement has a concatenation expression between two string
literals.

In other words: once I've come to a hypothesis from my reading of the
grammar, how can I *verify* that against the actual running Python
language parser?

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Ben Finney
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