While I'm sitting here purging implictly concatenated strings using

softwrap

. I'm reminded that Guido himself considered (at one point) implicit string literal concatenation to be considered harmful Also interesting article: https://blog.devgenius.io/5-of-666-python-repos-had-comma-typos-including-tensorflow-and-pytorch-sentry-and-v8-7bc3ad9a1bb7

@bitter-ability-32190 you hath converted me to no longer like implicit string concatenation. What was missing was something like your soft wrap

🏆

Would you consider proposing your function to the standard library?

🙈 That is an uphill climb, for sure. Maybe a younger Josh would

PEP 782413

Also FWIW I prefer explicit concat with

+

(which also gets `black`'s formatting a bit better) I also prefer leading spaces because it's more obvious:

"Line 1"
" Line 2"
" Line 3"
# vs
"Line 1 "
"Line 2"
"Line 3"

In all seriousness, I have seen several times that core maintainers will Shepherd the change for you. It might be worth opening a github issue to see if they have any interest? If so maybe a maintainer would help you with the process

oh god no. Just in other non-Pants places 🙂

https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/14215 ahem....

I dream a dream we can turn on NIC#02