Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tony Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > While we're at it, I use bracketing instead of line continuation: > > > > print ( "a long string, longer than this " > > "and some more of the string" ) > > To continue the pedantry: Those are parentheses, not brackets. > > Slightly more on-topic, the parentheses make it look like a sequence > to this reader (though, without a comma, not to the Python parser, of > course).
Nevertheless, my favorite style has also always been to use parentheses, and I was glad to see, on joining Google and studying its in-house Python style guide, that Google mandates that style, too. After all, though they're overloaded, it's _commas_ that make a tuple, not parentheses, which essentially just *group* things (in cases where the language's syntax would otherwise not suit you). So, you always do have to watch out for commas, ayway, since, e.g., x = "Sempre caro", "mi fu" and x = "Sempre caro mi fu" are so different -- it makes no difference whether either or both of these assigments use parentheses (after the = and at line end), it's the comma that does make all the difference. So, you can see it as a very good side effect of the "long string use parentheses, not backslashes" style rule, that the reader is soon weaned of the mistake of believing that parentheses signify tuples. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
