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

skip at pobox.com skip at pobox.com
Wed May 2 23:23:00 CEST 2007 

Trent> But if you don't want the EOLs? Example from some code of mine:

Trent>      raise MakeError("extracting '%s' in '%s' did not create the "
Trent>                      "directory that the Python build will expect: "
Trent>                      "'%s'" % (src_pkg, dst_dir, dst))

Trent> I use this kind of thing frequently. Don't know if others
Trent> consider it bad style.

I use it all the time. For example, to build up (what I consider to be) readable SQL queries:

rows = self.executesql("select cities.city, state, country"
                       "    from cities, venues, events, addresses"
                       "    where cities.city like %s"
                       "      and events.active = 1"
                       "      and venues.address = addresses.id"
                       "      and addresses.city = cities.id"
                       "      and events.venue = venues.id",
                       (city,))

I would be disappointed it string literal concatention went away.

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