[Python-ideas] Allow parentheses to be used with "with" block

[Paul Moore]

On 16 February 2015 at 15:00, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 16/02/2015 14:14, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:13 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> It might be worth remembering that the original post was asking for an
>>> alternative to backslashes *because the Google guidelines prohibit
>>> them*. Surely the obvious answer is to change the Google guidelines?
>>
>> Even more so: The obvious answer is to *ignore* the Google guidelines :)
>
> In exactly the same way that I ignore PEP8?  We're only talking guides here,
> not cast in stone must do or else.

The point is that any proposal here to change Python's syntax probably
needs a better justification than "the existing solution is prohibited
by Google's guidelines" :-)

Paul