On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 3:43 AM, Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> wrote:
The parentheses seem unnecessary/redundant/weird. Why not allow newlines in-between "with" and the terminating ":"?
with open('foo') as foo, open('bar') as bar, open('baz') as baz: pass
That way lies Coffeescript. Too much guessing.
There's no syntactic ambiguity, so what guessing are you talking about? What *really* requires guessing, is figuring out where in Python's syntax parentheses are allowed vs not allowed ;). For example, "from foo import (bar, baz)" is legal, but "import (bar, baz)" is not. Sometimes it feels like Python is slowly and organically evolving into a parenthesis-delimited language. -- Devin