Line continuation and comments
Edmondo Giovannozzi
edmondo.giovannozzi at gmail.com
Wed Feb 22 04:24:12 EST 2023
Il giorno mercoledì 22 febbraio 2023 alle 09:50:14 UTC+1 Robert Latest ha scritto:
> I found myself building a complicated logical condition with many ands and ors
> which I made more manageable by putting the various terms on individual lines
> and breaking them with the "\" line continuation character. In this context it
> would have been nice to be able to add comments to lines terms which of course
> isn't possible because the backslash must be the last character on the line.
>
> Question: If the Python syntax were changed to allow comments after line-ending
> backslashes, would it break any existing code? I can't think of an example.
Well you can if you use parenthesis like in:
x = 5
a = (x > 3 and
# x < 21 or
x > 100
)
You don't need the "\" to continue a line in this case
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