[Python-ideas] Re: Percent notation for array and string literals, similar to Perl, Ruby

David Mertz wrote:

One big problem with the current obvious way would be shared by the proposal. This hits me fairly often. colors1 = "red green blue".split() # happy Later colors2 = "cyan forest green burnt umber".split() # oops, not what I wanted, quote each separately

Good point. In Ruby, this could be written correctly as `%w{cyan forest green burnt\ umber}`