Tres Seaver wrote:
- -1. The feature exists to allow adherence to PEP-8, "Limit all lines to a maximum of 79 characters.", without requiring runtime concatenation costs. I use it frequently when assembling and testing message strings, for instance.
removing it is a bad idea for the reasons already given, but requiring parentheses could help.
that is, the following would result in a warning or an error: L = ["first", "second" "third"] but the following wouldn't: L = ["first", ("second" "third")] T = ("This is a line of text.\n" "This is another line of text.\n") etc. </F> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com