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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Aug 12 17:12:45 CEST 2014

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 3:43 AM, Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda at gmail.com> wrote:

I think this thread is probably Python-Ideas territory...

On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Allen Li <cyberdupo56 at gmail.com> wrote: > Currently, this works with explicit line continuation, but as all style > guides favor implicit line continuation over explicit, it would be nice > if you could do the following: > > with (open('foo') as foo, > open('bar') as bar, > open('baz') as baz, > open('spam') as spam, > open('eggs') as eggs): > pass The parentheses seem unnecessary/redundant/weird. Why not allow newlines in-between "with" and the terminating ":"? with open('foo') as foo, open('bar') as bar, open('baz') as baz: pass

That way lies Coffeescript. Too much guessing.

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