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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu May 3 02:55:49 CEST 2007

I think it looks like not enough people are ready for both these changes (PEP 3125 and PEP 3126). Maybe we could start by discouraging these in the style guide (PEP 8) instead?

--Guido

On 5/2/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

Trent Mick wrote:

> But if you don't want the EOLs? Example from some code of mine: > > raise MakeError("extracting '%s' in '%s' did not create the " > "directory that the Python build will expect: " > "'%s'" % (srcpkg, dstdir, dst)) > > I use this kind of thing frequently. Don't know if others consider it > bad style. I use it too, and would be disappointed if it were taken away. I find the usefulness considerably outweighs any occasional problems. -- Greg

Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000 at python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/guido%40python.org

-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

More information about the Python-3000 mailing list