[Python-3000] [Python-Dev] updated PEP3125, Remove Backslash Continuation (original) (raw)

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Fri May 4 21:30:15 CEST 2007

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On 5/4/07, Jim Jewett <jimjjewett at gmail.com> wrote:

Open Issues ===========

+ Should \-continuation be removed even inside strings?

I'm a strong -1 on this PEP if \-continuation is removed from inside triple-quoted strings. I'd hate to have to go from writing::

>>> textwrap.dedent('''\
...      foo
...      bar
... ''')
'foo\nbar\n'

to writing::

>>> textwrap.dedent('''
...     foo
...     bar
... '''[1:])
'foo\nbar\n'

or maybe::

>>> textwrap.dedent('''
...     foo
...     bar
... '''.lstrip('\n'))
'foo\nbar\n'

+ Should the continuation markers be expanced from just ([{}]) to include lines ending with an operator?

I think the only way to answer this is to have someone actually implement it, so that we can evaluate the complexity of the implementation. If someone can produce a patch, we can talk about this.

+ As a safety measure, should the continuation line be required to be more indented than the initial line?

Again, let's see a patch and we can talk about it.

STeVe

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