On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 at 16:06, Ned Batchelder <n...@nedbatchelder.com> wrote: > > I think the only reason anyone ever used leading commas to begin with was > because of languages that didn't allow a final trailing comma. In those > worlds, to keep the editing smooth, people moved the commas to the beginning > of the line, breaking with every comma-tradition.
Yes, I've seen it in SQL. But even there, it isn't used before the *first* element of a list. > I don't see a reason to make that odd style easier. Agreed. Paul _______________________________________________ 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/DA7K5IB5XBCJFQKERQWZKARCIZLCPHQC/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
