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

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Wed May 2 20:51:06 CEST 2007

At 10:34 AM 5/2/2007 -0700, 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.

Well, I do it a lot too; don't know if that makes it good or bad, though. :)

I personally don't see a lot of benefit to changing the lexical rules for Py3K, however. The hard part of lexing Python is INDENT/DEDENT (and the associated unbalanced parens rule), and none of these proposals suggest removing that. Overall, this whole thing seems like a bikeshed to me.

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