[Python-ideas] with statement syntax forces ugly line breaks?

[Ben Finney]

"Gregory P. Smith" <greg at krypto.org>
writes:

> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Nathan Schneider <nathan at cmu.edu> wrote:
> > I have approached these cases by using the backslash line-continuation
> > operator:
> >
> > with FakeContext("a") as a, \
> >   FakeContext("b") as b:
> >   pass
>
> I'm in the "\ is evil" at all costs camp […]

I agree, especially when we have a much neater continuation mechanism
that could work just fine here::

    with (FakeContext("a") as a,
             FakeContext("b") as b):
         pass

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