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[Python-Dev] Multiline with statement line continuation

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Aug 12 17:12:45 CEST 2014 
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 3:43 AM, Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think this thread is probably Python-Ideas territory...
>
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Allen Li <cyberdupo56 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Currently, this works with explicit line continuation, but as all style
> > guides favor implicit line continuation over explicit, it would be nice
> > if you could do the following:
> >
> >     with (open('foo') as foo,
> >           open('bar') as bar,
> >           open('baz') as baz,
> >           open('spam') as spam,
> >           open('eggs') as eggs):
> >         pass
>
> The parentheses seem unnecessary/redundant/weird. Why not allow
> newlines in-between "with" and the terminating ":"?
>
> with open('foo') as foo,
>        open('bar') as bar,
>        open('baz') as baz:
>     pass
>

That way lies Coffeescript. Too much guessing.

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