[Python-3000] [Python-Dev] PEP 30XZ: Simplified Parsing (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Wed May 2 21:41:38 CEST 2007

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On May 2, 2007, at 3:23 PM, Alexey Borzenkov wrote:

On 4/30/07, Jim Jewett <jimjjewett at gmail.com> wrote:

Python initially inherited its parsing from C. While this has been generally useful, there are some remnants which have been less useful for python, and should be eliminated.

+ Implicit String concatenation + Line continuation with "" I don't know if I can vote, but if I could I'd be -1 on this. Can't say I'm using continuation often, but there's one case when I'm using it and I'd like to continue using it: #!/usr/bin/env python _"""_ Usage: some-tool.py [arguments...] Does this and that based on its arguments""" if condition: print doc sys.exit(1) This way usage immediately stands out much better, without any unnecessary new lines.

Me too, all the time.

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