[Python-ideas] Re: Using 'with' with extra brackets for nicer indentation

On Thu, Nov 14, 2019, at 03:57, Paul Moore wrote:

with \
    open(fname1) as f1, \
    open(fname2) as f2, \
    open(fname3) as f3, \
    open(fname4) as f4:

So, uh... what if we didn't need backslashes for statements that begin with a keyword and end with a colon? There's no syntactic ambiguity there, right? Honestly, adding this would make me less annoyed with the error I get when I forget the colon, since it'd actually have a purpose other than grit on the screen.