Re: From D

On Jul 26, 1:24 am, Ben Finney <bignose+hates-s...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
"mensana...@xxxxxxx" <mensana...@xxxxxxx> writes:
On Jul 25, 9:04?pm, Steven D'Aprano
<st...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Why does it make no sense? Have you never had to scrape a web page
or read a CSV file?

Again, unrelated to the way the Python compiler syntactically treats
the source code.

That's what I was enquiring about.

So, just as

>>> int('123' '456')
123456

is not an error, the proposal is that

>>> a = 123 456
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

will not be an error either.

Yet,

>>> a = int('123 456')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#7>", line 1, in <module>
a = int('123 456')
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '123 456'

will still be an error. Just trying to be clear on this. Wouldn't
want that syntax behavior to carry over into run-time.


So this proposal would only apply to string literals at compile
time, not running programs?

Exactly the same way that it works for string literals in source code:
once the source code is compiled, the literal is indistinguishable
from the same value written a different way.

And I want the same error to occur if my CSV parser tries to convert
'123 456' into a single number. I don't want it to assume the
number is '123456'.

Once again, this is a discussion about Python syntax, not the
behaviour of the csv module.

Who said I was using the csv module?


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Ben Finney


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