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

[Georg Brandl]

Am 09.09.2010 09:55, schrieb 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

No, it could not work just fine.  You are basically banning tuples from the
context expression (remember that the "as" clause is optional).

You would argue that this is not a problem because tuples are not context

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