[Python-ideas] Line continuations with comments

[Stefan Drees]

On 2013-06-10 21:13 CEST, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 1:33 AM, Stefan Drees ... wrote:
>> - as continuation signal in shell: who has not been bitten by an
>>    innocent space following the backslash? ... and it's not the space
>>    we dislike ;-)
>
> Right, what we dislike is that \ takes invisible whitespace into
> account for no good reason.

I really thought about not sending the above list item. We are so used 
to having explicitely visible whitpace character displays in our working 
environments flanked by linting away all politically incorrect 
whitespace (we even have a nanny for that ...), but sometimes, I simply 
enjoy the pure sight of wide empty space separating words and than, 
invisible WS strikes me after a \\ ... thanks for also blaming the ??/

>> - on my console I use three fingers to produce this one symbol "\"
>>    eg. <ALT-SHIFT-7> so I even might visit trigraph-land again ??/
>
> This isn't a reason to oppose making "\" less painful to use. You can
> just as easily not use "\" after the change as before.

of course that is right :-) I mean "not for me" and "less painful for 
the rest" is fully ok.

I thought Chris was just exhaustively listing all known sources for "bad 
fee\ings" and I had one or two I did not spot on his shopping list.

Stefan.