-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On May 2, 2007, at 3:23 PM, Alexey Borzenkov wrote:
> On 4/30/07, Jim Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Python initially inherited its parsing from C. While this has >> been generally useful, there are some remnants which have been >> less useful for python, and should be eliminated. >> >> + Implicit String concatenation >> >> + Line continuation with "\" > > I don't know if I can vote, but if I could I'd be -1 on this. Can't > say I'm using continuation often, but there's one case when I'm using > it and I'd like to continue using it: > > #!/usr/bin/env python > """\ > Usage: some-tool.py [arguments...] > > Does this and that based on its arguments""" > > if condition: > print __doc__ > sys.exit(1) > > This way usage immediately stands out much better, without any > unnecessary new lines. Me too, all the time. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBRjjpcnEjvBPtnXfVAQL0ngP9FwE7swQSdPiH4wAMQRe1CAzWXBLCXKok d08GHhyp5GWHs1UzDZbnxnLRVZt+ra/3iSJT8g32X2gX9gWkFUJfqZFN9wLVjzDZ qlX4m2cJs4nlskRDsycPMY9MLGUwQ8bt7mn92Oh3vXAvtXm42Dxu66NvTlyYdIFQ 9M2HrMbBn1M= =3kNg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com