On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 10:09:41AM -0400, David Mertz wrote: > One big problem with the current obvious way would be shared by the > proposal. This hits me fairly often. > > colors1 = "red green blue".split() # happy > > Later > > colors2 = "cyan forest green burnt umber".split() > # oops, not what I wanted, quote each separately
It isn't shared by the proposal. colors2 = %w[cyan forest green burnt\x20umber] Escaping the space ``\ `` might be nicer, but escaping an invisible character is problematic (see the problems with the explict line continuation character ``\``) and we may not be able to add any new escape characters to the language. However a hex escape will do the trick. -- Steven _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/TCIWZCAPCIQJA2LMAKK6H4TWQNBJPUU7/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
