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Improve the String tutorial docs (GH-4541) (GH-4545) 

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.
(cherry picked from commit 78a5722ae9)
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@ -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::