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Wed May 2 20:57:38 CEST 2007 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-May/072936.html

On Wednesday 02 May 2007, Trent Mick wrote:
 >      raise MakeError("extracting '%s' in '%s' did not create the "
 >                      "directory that the Python build will expect: "
 >                      "'%s'" % (src_pkg, dst_dir, dst))
 >
 > I use this kind of thing frequently. Don't know if others consider it
 > bad style.

I do this too; this is a good way to have a simple human-readable message 
without doing weird things to about extraneous newlines or strange 
indentation.

-1 on removing implicit string catenation.

  -Fred

-- 
Fred L. Drake, Jr.   <fdrake at acm.org>

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[Python-Dev] PEP 30XZ: Simplified Parsing