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Expand Up @@ -218,6 +218,13 @@ 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'
Expand All @@ -233,13 +240,6 @@ 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::
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