[Python-Dev] A grammatical oddity: trailing commas in argument lists -- continuation

[Guido van Rossum]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Raymond Hettinger
<raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Dec 13, 2010, at 1:21 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
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>> Same here. A strong +1 for a consistent rule (always or never allowed) with a +1 for always given others use case of one param/arg per line.
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> It seems to me that a trailing comma in an argument list is more likely to be a user error than a deliberate comma-for-the-future.

Really? Have you observed this? Even if it was inserted by mistake, it
is harmless. Python has a long tradition of allowing redundant
trailing commas in comma-separated lists, and it is habit-forming.
That's the issue the OP had: he expected it to work in the one context
where it doesn't.

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