Re: Mandis Quotes (aka retiring """ and ''')

From: EP (EP_at_zomething.com)
Date: 10/06/04 

To: python-list@python.org
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 20:23:34 -0800

Russell Nelson notes:

>
> Choose poor examples, and then criticize them as poor choices?
>

true enough, but the suggested scheme introduces another variable into the language syntax; I might always make good choices <wink> on what delimiter I choose, but I might also end up working on code written by someone else who makes less good choices. Or vice versa.

 
> Exactly. It really would be better to have one(1) string literal
> which can quote anything without reverting to backslashing. Why one?
> Simpler parsing, simpler learning of the language, fewer choices to
> make while programming.

Agreed, though the paradox has already been noted in this thread... if anyone has a brilliant answer, it'd be a fascinating mind bend.

Eric

Python syntax is great, but I sometimes wonder: where did all the semicolons go and what do they do there? Do they languish unemployed and on the dole?