[Python-Dev] Multiline 'with' statement line continuation (original) (raw)

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Tue Aug 12 05:41:20 CEST 2014

Ben Hoyt <benhoyt at gmail.com> writes:

So -- although I'm not arguing for it here -- you'd be turning an code (a runtime AttributeError) into valid syntax.

Exactly what I'd want to avoid, especially because it looks like a tuple. There are IMO too many pieces of code that look confusingly similar to tuples but actually mean something else.

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