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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu May 3 08:36:15 CEST 2007


skip at pobox.com wrote:

when I hit LF in an open multiline string a newline is inserted and the cursor is lined up under the "r" of "rows", not under the opening quote of the multiline string, and not where you chose to indent your example.

Seems to me that Python actually benefits from an editor which doesn't try to be too clever about auto-formatting. I'm doing most of my Python editing at the moment using BBEdit Lite, which knows nothing at all about Python code -- but it works very well.

-- Greg



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