[Python-3000] Line continuation using ellipsis (original) (raw)

Jim Jewett jimjjewett at gmail.com
Fri Apr 13 16:19:33 CEST 2007


On 4/13/07, Paul Svensson <paul-python at svensson.org> wrote:

Talin wrote: > I've never liked using the backslash operator for line continuation

Me neither, but the suggested replacements don't appeal to me either. Is there any reason we can't just remove them ? Is backslash continuation still needed anywhere,

>>> assert True,
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> assert True, \
       "ASDF"
>>>


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