On Fri, 19 Aug 2022 at 04:19, David at Booomer <da...@boomer.org> wrote: > > This is really common in modern programming languages (read: programming > > languages younger than 30 years or so), because it makes it much more > > convenient to extend/shorten/reorder a list. Otherwise you alway have to > > remember add or remove a comma in the right place. (Some people > > (especially SQL programmers for some reason) resorted to put the comma > > at the start of each line to get around this, which is really ugly.) > > > > hp > > The trailing , does make commenting out arguments easier but unexpected > coming from ‘older’ languages. ;-) >
It's one of the frustrations with JSON, since that format doesn't allow the trailing comma :) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
