[Python-ideas] Implicit string literal concatenation considered harmful?

[Bruce Leban]

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:38 AM, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:

> Why do you say """there must be at least one whitespace character
> between the \ and the comment"""?
>

Two reasons:

(1) make the backslash more likely to stand out visually (and we can't
require a space before it)

(2) \# looks like it might be an escape sequence of some sort while I don't
think \ # does, making this friendlier to readers.

I'm not passionate about that detail if the rest of the proposal flies.

--- Bruce
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