On 23/10/2019 15:09, David Mertz wrote:
One big problem with the current obvious way would be shared by the
proposal. This hits me fairly often.

colors1 = "red green blue".split()  # happy

Later

colors2 = "cyan   forest green  burnt umber".split()
# oops, not what I wanted, quote each separately

I'm seriously not getting the issue people have with

colours1 = ["red", "green", "blue"]

which has the advantage of saying what it means.

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Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd
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