> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 at 01:25PM -0700, John H Palmieri wrote: > This is exactly why die-hard Python people say "don't use backslashes to > continue statements": > > http://docs.python.org/dev/howto/doanddont.html#using-backslash-to-continue-statements > > Perhaps we should link to the above guide in the Sage Programming Guide?
Perhaps backslashes followed by whitespace and a newline could be handled by the preparser. Strip the whitespace so the newline is properly escaped. This wouldn't help with .py files where the preparser is not invoked but it would help with the problem at hand, unless I'm missing something. Dan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
