[Python-ideas] Allow with (x as y, z as w):

[Guido van Rossum]

Also, I think some people are too fundamentalist about rejecting all uses
of \ to break long lines. When combined with proper indentation of the
continuation line, if there is no alternative, I think it looks better than
artifically introduced parentheses. At least if there's only one or two
continuation lines. E.g.
```
very_long_variable_name = \
    very_long_function(very_long_argument_list)
```
looks better to me than
```
very_long_variable_name = (
    very_long_function(very_long_argument_list))
```
I'm just saying, there's a reason PEP 8's motto is "A Foolish Consistency
is the Hobgoblin of Little Minds".

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 8:22 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

> On Apr 25, 2016, at 12:36 PM, Cory Benfield wrote:
>
> >This request has come up a couple of times before.
> ...
> >The upshot is: the restriction on context managers with parentheses like
> this
> >is relatively likely to stick around.
>
> I highly recommend looking at contextlib.ExitStack.  Once I started using
> this idiom, I found I wanted the requested with-feature much less
> frequently.
>
> Cheers,
> -Barry
>
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