Edmondo Giovannozzi wrote: > Il giorno mercoledì 22 febbraio 2023 alle 09:50:14 UTC+1 Robert Latest ha > scritto: >> I found myself building a complicated logical condition with many ands and >> ors which I made more manageable by putting the various terms on individual >> lines and breaking them with the "\" line continuation character. In this >> context it would have been nice to be able to add comments to lines terms >> which of course isn't possible because the backslash must be the last >> character on the line. >> >> Question: If the Python syntax were changed to allow comments after >> line-ending >> backslashes, would it break any existing code? I can't think of an example. > > Well you can if you use parenthesis like in: > x = 5 > a = (x > 3 and > # x < 21 or > x > 100 > ) > You don't need the "\" to continue a line in this case
I like that. Never thought of it. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
