what happened to these string?

[jefsummers]

The bar's are multiline comments. The interesting line is a = """foo""". Put a space between the first and second, and the fifth and sixth quotes and print, and you get the spaces around foo. So, in an assignment statement the """ does not designate a comment, rather it is a null string followed by foo followed by a null string. Hmm. Didn't need plus signs... Double checking on this -

a="Hello ""world"

results in Hello world