On 30 September 2012 09:26, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Tim Delaney > <timothy.c.dela...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Personally I voted for the Fierce Snake[1][2] as the delimiter, but it > was > > voted down as "not Pythonic" enough. > > I'm sure they were using that as a euphamism for "Python*ish*" though. > > > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inland_Taipan > > [2] It's is so pretty: > > > https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Fierce_Snake-Oxyuranus_microlepidotus.jpg > > A tempting idea, but it's rather a large delimiter. We should reserve > that for multi-line strings, I think. Although you may have a problem > with i18n; when you take your code to the southern hemisphere, the > snake will be facing the other way, so what you thought was an > open-quote marker is now a close-quote marker instead. Could get > awkward for naive coders >
You seem to have that backwards. With the Oz-centric focus, it's taking code to the northern hemisphere that's the problem. Tim Delaney
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