Idioms and Anti-Idioms Question

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:34:40 -0300, Miles Kaufmann <milesck at umich.edu>  
escribió:
> On Jun 22, 2009, at 12:14 AM, Ben Charrow wrote:
>
>> What is subtly wrong about this piece of code?  I can't see any bugs  
>> and can't think of subtle gotchas (e.g. the '\' is removed or the lines  
>> become separated, because in both cases an IndentationError would be  
>> raised).
>
> Perhaps, along with one of those gotchas, a mix of tabs and spaces are  
> used such that the second line only _appears_ to have a different level  
> of indentation? ;)

Neither. As back in time as I can go (Python 1.5), having any character  
after the backslash has always been a syntax error no matter what. Only  
the error message has changed:

C:\TEMP>python15 syntaxerror.py
   File "syntaxerror.py", line 18
     value = foo.bar()['first'][0]*baz.quux(1, 2)[5:9] \
                                                        ^
SyntaxError: invalid token

So the "it might be subtly wrong" argument is strongly wrong.

-- 
Gabriel Genellina