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

Alexey Borzenkov snaury at gmail.com
Wed May 2 21:23:47 CEST 2007

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.

Best regards, Alexey.

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