Is this "operator" overloadable on each type in Python?

And that scares me a lot. I think I have to reevaluate my position towards Python.

Thanks.

I get the use case as you described it, but it just seems like minimal effort to accomplish and have some semblance of explicit/safety.

So strange that Python has completely different syntax from C, but they chose to copy this obscure syntactic feature _even though they have the plus operator on strings_.

It's common in some languages and used the way you use it. I looked in PEP8 and it seems they don't discuss this.

I think it's a perfectly valid use case, but clearly there are two camps to this. If this is so contentious, I would recommend PEP8 be revised to either explicitly endorse it as a way to split long lines or to explicitly discourage it and recommend the + operator instead.

  mylongstring = "hello" +
    "world"

    mylongstring = ("hello" +
       "world")

      mylongstring = ("hello"
       "world")

    mylongstring = "hello " \
      "world " \
         "my " \
     "name " \
    "is"*

> The preferred way of wrapping long lines is by using Python's implied line continuation inside parentheses, brackets and braces. Long lines can be broken over multiple lines by wrapping expressions in parentheses. These should be used in preference to using a backslash for line continuation.