[Zope] Python nasty :S

[Chris Withers]

Flame me if you want, but this one really got me bad so I thought I'd
make others aware...

cheers,

Chris

ChrisW's post to the Python Bug List:
> I have something equivalent to this in my code:
> 
> mylist = ['x','y'
>           'z']
> 
> (the real code has much longer contents, hence the line break ;-)
> 
> I think this should throw a parse error 'cos there's a missing comma.
> 
> What actually happens is it ends up as:
> 
> mylist = ['x','yz']
> 
> which is _really_ non-intuitive. I spent a good few hours trying to find the source
> of an exception in the Squishdot product for Zope until I noticed this.
> 
> I note that:
> mystring = 'x''y'
> is also legal, which I suspect is the roundabout source of this problem.
> 
> Sure that should raise an error and only the following should give the result that that does:
> mystring = 'x'+'y'
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Chris