On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 3:28 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > For exmaple, if I have a multiline list like this: > > x = [ > 1, > 2 > ] > > and add a new element to the end, then I end up with the diff including > the 2 even though I didn't change the 2. But if I had had a trailing > comma, then the diff only shows the new entry. > > I see a lot of SQL with the commas at the beginnings of the lines > (mostly, I think, due to SQL's syntax), but it solves the same problem.
Also in JSON, and for the same reason: the syntax disallows the trailing comma. There is no reason to create the awkwardness if trailing commas are accepted. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/TS7P3FBU6ICLM3XYPC4J3JZEUH5X7Q5N/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
