On 2008-08-29, Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Exactly. This is one of those little pieces of syntactic > sugar which makes python so nice to work with. The > alternative is (in C, for example) abominations like this: > > const char* l[] = {"foo" > , "bar" > , "baz" > }; > > and even those are not quite as good because you still have to > special-case the first entry.
It's probably a spec violation, but I've never seen a C compiler that objected to a comma after the last item in an initializer list. (At least not at the warning levels I use, which tend to be on the picky side.) -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! There's enough money at here to buy 5000 cans of visi.com Noodle-Roni! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list