On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:30:03 +0000, Alan G Isaac wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >>> For Python 2.7/3.1 I'd now like to write a PEP regarding the >>> underscores into the number literals, like: 0b_0101_1111, 268_435_456 >>> etc. >> >> +1 on such a capability. >> >> -1 on underscore as the separator. > > > On 9/1/2008 9:13 PM Ben Finney apparently wrote: >> When you proposed this last year, the counter-proposal was made >> <URL:http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/ msg/18123d100bba63b8?dmode=source> >> to instead use white space for the separator, exactly as one can now do >> with string literals. > > Yuck. > Repeating a mistake means two mistakes.
A lot of us don't think that white space between string literals was a mistake. A lot of us consider it a desirable feature. > But I would hate less the use of nobreak spaces, since any decent editor > can reveal them. How do you type a nobreak space? It's also probably a bad idea for Python the language to depend on developers using "a decent editor", since many people disagree on what a decent editor is, and many other people don't have access to whatever you consider "a decent editor". -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
