On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 09:10 am, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us>: > >> No, it isn't. Using '\' for line continuation is strongly discouraged. > > Why would you discourage valid syntax?
Because it is error-prone and ugly. This is valid syntax too. Do you write your code like this? x = ++ ++ -- ++ -- --1 y = (((((2))))) , 3 s = "Hello world!" . upper() -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list