Allow multiline conditions and the like

[Ben Finney]

Yingjie Lan <lanyjie at yahoo.com> writes:

> Allow the conditions in the if-, elif-, while-, for-, and with-clauses
> to span multiple lines without using a backlalsh at the end of a line,

You can already do this with any expression: use parentheses.


Yingjie Lan <lanyjie at yahoo.com> writes:

> I would like to have comments after the line continuation backslash.

I have almost never needed a line continuation backslash; I consider
them a code smell.

> >>> if a > 0 \ #comments for this condition
>       and b > 0:
>     #do something here

    if (a > 0  # Comments for this condition
        and b > 0):
        # Do something here

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Ben Finney