Neil Cerutti added the comment:
Yes, I know. That's why I feel it should not be labeled an anti-idiom,
as it currently seems to be.
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New submission from Neil Cerutti :
This "anti-idiom" is in the Python HOWTOs->Idioms and Anti-Idioms
The current title is "Using Backslash to Continue Statements"
However, using the line continuation character won't cause mysterious
problems in statements, but onl
New submission from Neil Cerutti:
Passing an interable to the __init__ method of an existing deque
appends those elements, rather than reinitializing the deque with the
items. This is contrary to how list.__init__ works.
test_deque.py verifies the (possibly) incorrect behavior
