[Python-Dev] ',' precedence in documentation (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Sun Sep 14 23:00:45 CEST 2008

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Benjamin Peterson <musiccomposition at gmail.com> wrote:

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

I think in general Python has erred on the side of having too many different syntactical uses for commas. We killed a few in 3.0 with the introduction of "except E as v" and the demotion of print to a function call. Perhaps we should aim to kill "assert B, S" as well? And replace it with what?

I have no idea. Use your imagination. :-)

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