[Python-Dev] re: Attribute Strings (original) (raw)

Nick Bastin nbastin at opnet.com
Sun Aug 8 23:54:38 CEST 2004

On Aug 8, 2004, at 5:20 PM, Edward K. Ream wrote:

The second is not a valid string literal now -- That's why I suggested it. ""@" would be a new token, so the statement about '@' in the delims section would remain essentially unchanged.

I don't know if anyone is actually seriously considering this, but I'm -1. We're venturing into an area where the syntax makes people really not want to use the feature (and ""@" probably doesn't please the people who don't like the aesthetics of '@', so all we're doing is fixing the problem for IPython and a few other corner people).

My impression is that -before-def is going to be The Syntax(tm), but Guido is content to let be something other than '@'. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what all the alternate placement syntaxes are being proposed for. If that's not the case, then I'll start lobbying harder for -after-def (although not ""@")... ;-)

-- Nick

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