Re: Line-continuation "Anti-Idiom" and with statement

2009-11-24 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2009-11-23, Terry Reedy wrote: > Neil Cerutti wrote: >> Unfortunately, the new "nested" with statement (which I also read >> about today) forces me into this anti-idiom. When replacing an >> appearance of contextlib.nested with the 3K with statement, I >> ended up with an unexpected syntax erro

Re: Line-continuation "Anti-Idiom" and with statement

2009-11-23 Thread Terry Reedy
MRAB wrote: Neil Cerutti wrote: > I installed Python 3.1 today, and I've been porting my small > library of programs to the new system. > > I happened to read the interesting "Idioms and Anti-Idioms" > HOWTO, and saw the '\' continuation character labeled an > anti-idiom. I already generall

Re: Line-continuation "Anti-Idiom" and with statement

2009-11-23 Thread Terry Reedy
Neil Cerutti wrote: I installed Python 3.1 today, and I've been porting my small library of programs to the new system. I happened to read the interesting "Idioms and Anti-Idioms" HOWTO, and saw the '\' continuation character labeled an anti-idiom. I already generally avoided it, so I just nodde

Re: Line-continuation "Anti-Idiom" and with statement

2009-11-23 Thread MRAB
Neil Cerutti wrote: > I installed Python 3.1 today, and I've been porting my small > library of programs to the new system. > > I happened to read the interesting "Idioms and Anti-Idioms" > HOWTO, and saw the '\' continuation character labeled an > anti-idiom. I already generally avoided it, so I

Line-continuation "Anti-Idiom" and with statement

2009-11-23 Thread Neil Cerutti
I installed Python 3.1 today, and I've been porting my small library of programs to the new system. I happened to read the interesting "Idioms and Anti-Idioms" HOWTO, and saw the '\' continuation character labeled an anti-idiom. I already generally avoided it, so I just nodded. Unfortunately, the