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I think this thread is probably Python-Ideas territory...

On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Allen Li <cyberdupo56@gmail.com> wrote:
\> Currently, this works with explicit line continuation, but as all style
\> guides favor implicit line continuation over explicit, it would be nice
\> if you could do the following:
\>
\> with (open('foo') as foo,
\> open('bar') as bar,
\> open('baz') as baz,
\> open('spam') as spam,
\> open('eggs') as eggs):
\> pass

The parentheses seem unnecessary/redundant/weird. Why not allow
newlines in-between "with" and the terminating ":"?

with open('foo') as foo,
open('bar') as bar,
open('baz') as baz:
pass