[issue7391] Re-title the "Using Backslash to Continue Statements" anti-idiom

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[issue7391] Re-title the "Using Backslash to Continue Statements" anti-idiom

Éric Araujo added the comment: More links for the future update of doanddonts are under http://uthcode.sarovar.org/python.html#simple-is-better-than-complex -- ___ Python tracker __

[issue7391] Re-title the "Using Backslash to Continue Statements" anti-idiom

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[issue7391] Re-title the "Using Backslash to Continue Statements" anti-idiom

Éric Araujo added the comment: I also remember a discussion about updating this document with items from Code Like a Pythonista, so there’s value in restoring and updating it IMO. It’s not hopeless like the defunct Misc/cheatsheet. -- ___ Python t

[issue7391] Re-title the "Using Backslash to Continue Statements" anti-idiom

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Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Several people have spoken in favour of this document and you are the only one who finds it useless, apparently (*). I think it should therefore be restored in the repository. (*) see http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-March/109513.html ---

[issue7391] Re-title the "Using Backslash to Continue Statements" anti-idiom

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 80ff78425419 by Raymond Hettinger in branch '3.2': Issue 7391: Remove questionable and outdated HOWTO document with permission from its author. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/80ff78425419 -- ___ Pytho

[issue7391] Re-title the "Using Backslash to Continue Statements" anti-idiom

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[issue7391] Re-title the "Using Backslash to Continue Statements" anti-idiom

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: I discussed this with Moshe today and he agreed that the document is out-of-date and should be removed. -- nosy: +moshez resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue7391] Re-title the "Using Backslash to Continue Statements" anti-idiom

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset e34b09c69dd3 by Raymond Hettinger in branch 'default': Issue #7391: Remove outdated HOWTO with permission of its author. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e34b09c69dd3 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tra

[issue7391] Re-title the "Using Backslash to Continue Statements" anti-idiom

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: I'll take that section out. -- assignee: d...@python -> rhettinger nosy: +rhettinger ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue7391] Re-title the "Using Backslash to Continue Statements" anti-idiom

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: In #10545, 'rurpy2' gives a similar critique of this section and suggests that it be improved or removed. I agree that it needs change and will try to think of what would be better. -- nosy: +rurpy2, terry.reedy versions: -Python 3.0, Python 3.1 ___

[issue7391] Re-title the "Using Backslash to Continue Statements" anti-idiom

Georg Brandl added the comment: Agreed. -- priority: -> low resolution: wont fix -> ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mail

[issue7391] Re-title the "Using Backslash to Continue Statements" anti-idiom

Neil Cerutti added the comment: Yes, I know. That's why I feel it should not be labeled an anti-idiom, as it currently seems to be. -- status: pending -> open ___ Python tracker

[issue7391] Re-title the "Using Backslash to Continue Statements" anti-idiom

Georg Brandl added the comment: As you write, the parentheses "trick" only works in expressions (what you tried to wrap in your with statement is not an expression). The backslash works for all kinds of statements however, so the suggested change is wrong. -- resolution: -> wont fix s

[issue7391] Re-title the "Using Backslash to Continue Statements" anti-idiom

New submission from Neil Cerutti : This "anti-idiom" is in the Python HOWTOs->Idioms and Anti-Idioms The current title is "Using Backslash to Continue Statements" However, using the line continuation character won't cause mysterious problems in statements, but only in certain expressions, as th