[Python-ideas] Allow parentheses to be used with "with" block (original) (raw)

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Mon Feb 16 00:37:34 CET 2015

On 2015-02-15 21:52, Neil Girdhar wrote:

It's great that multiple context managers can be sent to "with":

with a as b, c as d, e as f: suite If the context mangers have a lot of text it's very hard to comply with PEP8 without resorting to "" continuations, which are proscribed by the Google style guide. Other statements like import and if support enclosing their arguments in parentheses to force aligned continuations. Can we have the same for "with"? E.g. with (a as b, c as d, e as f): suite This is a pretty minor change to the grammar and parser. It's not as minor as you think, because the part before the 'as' is an expression, and expressions can start with a parenthesis.

For example, how do you distinguish between:

 with (as a b):

and:

 with (a) as b:

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