From e51aa5b2cd537c2253c908bccd47e58bc195796b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido van Rossum Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 23:14:14 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Minor clarifications by Sean Reifschneider: - add example of string literal concatenation - add clarifying comment to the example of the if statement --- Doc/tut/tut.tex | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/tut/tut.tex b/Doc/tut/tut.tex index dc59074ec77..f647aed647c 100644 --- a/Doc/tut/tut.tex +++ b/Doc/tut/tut.tex @@ -549,7 +549,20 @@ operator, and repeated with \code{*}: Two string literals next to each other are automatically concatenated; the first line above could also have been written \samp{word = 'Help' -'A'}; this only works with two literals, not with arbitrary string expressions. +'A'}; this only works with two literals, not with arbitrary string +expressions: + +\begin{verbatim} +>>> 'str' 'ing' # <- This is ok +'string' +>>> string.strip('str') + 'ing' # <- This is ok +'string' +>>> string.strip('str') 'ing' # <- This is invalid + File "", line 1 + string.strip('str') 'ing' + ^ +SyntaxError: invalid syntax +\end{verbatim} Strings can be subscripted (indexed); like in \C{}, the first character of a string has subscript (index) 0. There is no separate character @@ -853,6 +866,7 @@ Perhaps the most well-known statement type is the \keyword{if} statement. For example: \begin{verbatim} +>>> # [Code which sets 'x' to a value...] >>> if x < 0: ... x = 0 ... print 'Negative changed to zero'