I don't see what's wrong with `["one", "two", "three"]`. It's the most explicit and from the compiler perspective it's probably also as optimal as it can get. Also it doesn't hurt readability. Actually it helps. With syntax highlighting the word boundaries immediately become clear.
If you're having long lists of string literals and you're annoyed by having to type `"` and `,` for every element, then it is the job of your IDE to properly support you while coding, not the job of the syntax (as long as it's clear and concise). For that reason all the advanced IDEs with all their features exists. Without code completion for example you could also ask for new syntax that helps you abbreviating long variable names, because it's too much to type. So instead of writing `this_is_a_very_long_but_expressive_name` you could do `this_is...` in case there's only one name that starts with "this_is" which can be resolved from your scope. That would even shorten the code. Nevertheless I think that code completion is a good idea and that we have to use the exact same name every time. The same applies to these "word literals". If you need a list of words, you can already create a list literal with the words inside. If that's too much typing, then you should ask your favorite IDE to implement corresponding refactoring assistance. I'm pretty sure the guys at PyCharm would consider adding something like this (e.g. if the caret is inside a string literal you can access the context menu via <alt>+<enter> and there could be something like "split words"). Steve Jorgensen wrote: > See > https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ruby_Programming/Syntax/Literals#The_%_Notatio... > for what Ruby offers. > For me, the arrays are the most useful aspect. > %w{one two three} > => ["one", "two", "three"] > > I did a search, and I don't see that this has been suggested before, but I > might have > missed something. I'm guessing I'm not the first person to ask whether this > seems like a > desirable feature to add to Python. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/J7X7BGBNZY43NANEB5OLJXCQFMZ7KHJH/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
