Steven Lehar wrote: > Is this the right place to propose language extensions? > > My Python code keeps expanding rightwards, it is difficult to keep it > contained within reasonable limits.
You should attack this by breaking large expressions into smaller ones and factoring out some of your code into helper functions. > But the standard line continuation \ > is positively anti-Pythonic because an *invisible* white space between \ > and [CR] will render it useless. Useless? You get a SyntaxError, remove the offending whitespace, and that's it. > How about a new Python symbol, maybe \\ that CAN have following whitespace > which is ignored, so that seeing a \\ in the code forces it to continue on > the next line. Did you know that there already is a pythonic alternative that works well in most cases? An open (, [, or { will allow you to continue on the next line, e. g. items = [(foo(item), bar(item)) for row in rows for item in row if baz( alpha=1, beta=item)] no strings attached. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list