On Jun 21, 9:14 pm, Ben Charrow <bchar...@csail.mit.edu> wrote: > I have a question about the "Using Backslash to Continue Statements" in the > howto "Idioms and Anti-Idioms in Python" > (http://docs.python.org/howto/doanddont.html#using-backslash-to-contin...) > > It says: > > "...if the code was: > > value = foo.bar()['first'][0]*baz.quux(1, 2)[5:9] \ > + calculate_number(10, 20)*forbulate(500, 360) > > then it would just be subtly wrong." > > What is subtly wrong about this piece of code? I can't see any bugs and can't > think of subtle gotchas (e.g. the '\' is removed or the lines become > separated, > because in both cases an IndentationError would be raised).
Perhaps it was originally was like this: value = foo.bar()['first'][0]*baz.quux(1, 2)[5:9] \ + calculate_number(10, 20)*forbulate(500, 360) Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
