On 7/10/05, Andrew Durdin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/7/05, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I don't think so. It smells too much of DWIM, which is very unpythonic. > > EIBTI. > > In what way? The scheme described is explicit, and consistently > applied to all triple-quoted strings[*] -- although the rules are > different to the current behaviour. On the other hand, my written > proposal may not be clear or explicit, something I will attempt to > remedy over the next few days.
The scheme may be explicitly spelled out in the language reference, but it is implicit to the human reader -- what you see is no longer what you get. > [*] Whether it should apply also to normal strings with escaped > newlines is not something I have yet considered. I recommend that you give it up. You ain't gonna convince me. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
