-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On May 2, 2007, at 3:23 PM, Alexey Borzenkov wrote:
On 4/30/07, Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com> wrote:
Python initially inherited its parsing from C. While this has been generally useful, there are some remnants which have been less useful for python, and should be eliminated.
+ Implicit String concatenation
+ Line continuation with "\"
I don't know if I can vote, but if I could I'd be -1 on this. Can't say I'm using continuation often, but there's one case when I'm using it and I'd like to continue using it:
#!/usr/bin/env python """\ Usage: some-tool.py [arguments...]
Does this and that based on its arguments"""
if condition: print __doc__ sys.exit(1)
This way usage immediately stands out much better, without any unnecessary new lines.
Me too, all the time. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBRjjpcnEjvBPtnXfVAQL0ngP9FwE7swQSdPiH4wAMQRe1CAzWXBLCXKok d08GHhyp5GWHs1UzDZbnxnLRVZt+ra/3iSJT8g32X2gX9gWkFUJfqZFN9wLVjzDZ qlX4m2cJs4nlskRDsycPMY9MLGUwQ8bt7mn92Oh3vXAvtXm42Dxu66NvTlyYdIFQ 9M2HrMbBn1M= =3kNg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----