[Python-ideas] Allow parentheses to be used with "with" block
Ben Finney
ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Mon Feb 16 00:35:26 CET 2015
Neil Girdhar <mistersheik at gmail.com>
writes:
> Other statements like import and if support enclosing their arguments in
> parentheses to force aligned continuations. Can we have the same for
> "with"?
>
> E.g.
>
> with (a as b,
> c as d,
> e as f):
> suite
And even the more consistent::
with (
a as b,
c as d,
e as f):
suite
> This is a pretty minor change to the grammar and parser.
+1. It frequently surprises me that this isn't already legal syntax, and
I'd very much like to see this improvement.
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