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bcharrow at csail

Jun 21, 2009, 9:14 PM

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Idioms and Anti-Idioms Question

I have a question about the "Using Backslash to Continue Statements" in the
howto "Idioms and Anti-Idioms in Python"
(http://docs.python.org/howto/doanddont.html#using-backslash-to-continue-statements)

It says:

"...if the code was:

value = foo.bar()['first'][0]*baz.quux(1, 2)[5:9] \
+ calculate_number(10, 20)*forbulate(500, 360)

then it would just be subtly wrong."

What is subtly wrong about this piece of code? I can't see any bugs and can't
think of subtle gotchas (e.g. the '\' is removed or the lines become separated,
because in both cases an IndentationError would be raised).

Cheers,
Ben
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Subject	User	Time
Idioms and Anti-Idioms Question	bcharrow at csail	Jun 21, 2009, 9:14 PM
Re: Idioms and Anti-Idioms Question	steven at REMOVE	Jun 21, 2009, 10:51 PM
Re: Idioms and Anti-Idioms Question	lie.1296 at gmail	Jun 21, 2009, 10:54 PM
Re: Idioms and Anti-Idioms Question	ldo at geek-central	Jun 22, 2009, 1:01 AM
Re: Idioms and Anti-Idioms Question	wbsoft at xs4all	Jun 22, 2009, 3:57 AM
Re: Idioms and Anti-Idioms Question	peter at www	Jun 22, 2009, 3:52 PM
Re: Idioms and Anti-Idioms Question	ldo at geek-central	Jun 23, 2009, 4:16 AM
Re: Idioms and Anti-Idioms Question	jcd at sdf	Jun 23, 2009, 8:50 AM
Re: Idioms and Anti-Idioms Question	lie.1296 at gmail	Jun 23, 2009, 11:07 AM
Re: Idioms and Anti-Idioms Question	ldo at geek-central	Jun 22, 2009, 5:03 AM
Re: Idioms and Anti-Idioms Question	milesck at umich	Jun 22, 2009, 4:34 PM
Re: Idioms and Anti-Idioms Question	gagsl-py2 at yahoo	Jun 23, 2009, 8:24 AM
Re: Idioms and Anti-Idioms Question	pavlovevidence at gmail	Jun 23, 2009, 8:32 AM
Re: Idioms and Anti-Idioms Question	ldo at geek-central	Jun 30, 2009, 10:19 PM
Re: Idioms and Anti-Idioms Question	jcd at sdf	Jul 2, 2009, 7:15 AM
Re: Idioms and Anti-Idioms Question	ldo at geek-central	Jul 3, 2009, 5:08 PM

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