is this bad documentation?

[Skaperen]

as someone who has seen the diversity of quite many languages, i never consider something like this to be obvious. i do consider whether or not it can be made compilable and/or interpretable. this can be either way, so that would not force an implication to be one way, only. that's why i considered the documentation text to be inconsistent with test results.

but, perhaps it doesn't say it their because it says it somewhere else (python expressions never cross line boundaries). then this would be more a tutorial (expecting the reader to read it in sequence ... each part assumes all previous parts have been read) than a reference (look up the part you need to find out more/details about).

OTOH, i have never seen a language that allows things to span lines without also allowing them to span a whitespace. so i assume """ can't span lines because it can't be like "" ".