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

Alexey Borzenkov snaury at gmail.com
Wed May 2 23:25:00 CEST 2007

On 5/3/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

On 5/2/07, Alexey Borzenkov <snaury at gmail.com> wrote: > 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""" I've been trying to tease out of the PEP author whether \ inside _string literals would also be dropped. I'd be against that even if _ outside strings were to be killed. So a vote based solely on this argument has little value.

Ouch, I didn't even think it could be dropped one way and not the other. To be honest, I don't have opinion on the usage of \ outside of string literals, never needed to use it, and it seems there's always a workaround with parenthesis. So I'm sorry, that have been very premature.

-- Alexey

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