[Python-Dev] A house upon the sand

[Tim Peters]

[Barry A. Warsaw]
> ...
> I have noticed that I often define string constants like
>
> SPACE = ' '
> EMPTY = ''
> NL = '\n'
>
> just so I can write code like
>
> NL.join(headers)
> SPACE.join(names)
> EMPTY.join(lines)
> 
> I doubt it's worth it, but maybe having a standard module called
> stringconstants.py with some of the more obvious choices would make
> things better?

-0.  Then I'd expect to see

    from stringconstants import *

at least once, which is at least once too often.  Sick trick:

SPACE, TAB, NL = " \t\n"

sequence-unpacking-is-more-general-than-you-think<wink>-ly y'rs
    - tim