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

Todd wrote:

Compare that to: colors2 = "cyan,forest green,burnt umber".split(',') or, if you follow pep8-style commas: colors2 = "cyan, forest green, burnt umber".split(', ') This is one of the many cases where being able to specify the delimiter helps.

That's a very useful suggestion. :)