This is getting a little ridiculous. If you can get by with a single literal list of words, write it once. ...if it's long enough to be annoying or becomes a maintenance burden, use the `split()` idiom. ...if that's considered a "hack" or "bad form", then run it in the shell once and copy/paste the result. ...if it might get mutated in a loop, copy it (words[:]). You'd be constructing a new one anyways. ...if it's just too long to maintain in code, just load it from a txt file once at runtime.
These are simple engineering solutions to simple engineering problems. As a bonus, they don't require implementation maintainers to redesign their tokenizers/parsers or build a brand-new preprocesser. Python-ideas truly is a unique, wonderful, exhausting place. Back to the "plus/pipe" thread (formerly known as the "PEP 584" thread)... _______________________________________________ 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/THBBTIQ34GYZSBW6PQXKKO3L3UADYBXB/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
