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

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 4:14 AM, Bruce Leban <bruce at leapyear.org> wrote:
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> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:38 AM, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
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>> Why do you say """there must be at least one whitespace character
>> between the \ and the comment"""?
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> Two reasons:
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> (1) make the backslash more likely to stand out visually (and we can't
> require a space before it)
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> (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.

Spin that off as a separate thread, I think the change to the
backslash rules stands alone. I would support it; allowing a
line-continuation backslash to be followed by a comment is a Good
Thing imo.

ChrisA