On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Tim Delaney <timothy.c.dela...@gmail.com> wrote: > Personally I voted for the Fierce Snake[1][2] as the delimiter, but it was > voted down as "not Pythonic" enough. > I'm sure they were using that as a euphamism for "Python*ish*" though. > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inland_Taipan > [2] It's is so pretty: > https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Fierce_Snake-Oxyuranus_microlepidotus.jpg
A tempting idea, but it's rather a large delimiter. We should reserve that for multi-line strings, I think. Although you may have a problem with i18n; when you take your code to the southern hemisphere, the snake will be facing the other way, so what you thought was an open-quote marker is now a close-quote marker instead. Could get awkward for naive coders. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
