On Dec 20, 6:47 am, Steven D'Aprano <steve +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:35:20 -0800, alex23 wrote: > > Eelco <hoogendoorn.ee...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Having two seperate symbols seperated by whitespace, as in @list args > >> strikes me as a terrible break of normal python lexical rules. > > > You mean like 'is not'? And the upcoming 'yield from'? > > Also "not in". > > Space-delimited tokens are hardly rare in Python, e.g.: > > import module as name > for x in sequence > if flag > elif condition > while condition > with obj > del name > > Nevertheless, I think the suggested syntax "@list args" is awful. > > -- > Steven
Can you give an example of a construct in python where two whitespace delimited identifiers are legal? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
