Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
This is essentially a duplicate of #7391 where it is already agreed that a
change should be made to that section.
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nosy: +terry.reedy
resolution: -> duplicate
status: open -> closed
superseder: -> Re-title the "Using Backslash to Continue Statement
New submission from rurpy the second :
The Python HOWTOs->Idioms and Anti-Idioms has a section
"Using Backslash to Continue Statements".
It says that line continuation is "dangerous" and gives two reasons.
1. Hard to see a space after the backslash.
This is not "dangerous" as it cause an impos