[Python-3000] PEP-3125 -- remove backslash continuation

[Andrew Koenig]

> Incidentally, I know one Python programmer who writes list literals
> like this:
> 
> mylist = [
>            1
>          , 2
>          , 3
>          ]
> 
> In a fixed-width font, the commas and brackets are all in the same
> column.  While "bleech" is the proper reaction ;-), that does work
> fine today.

Sounds like another argument in favor of not treating comma as an operator
(because it *can* end a statement) but keeping the open-bracket rule.