[Python-ideas] explicitation lines in python ?

[Guido van Rossum]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Daniel DELAY <danieldelay at gmail.com> wrote:
> Le 25/06/2010 21:08, Daniel DELAY a écrit :
>>
>> with open('data.txt') as f :
>>    if line in enumerate(mylist) :  # main line
>>        mylist : f.read().strip().lower()    # explicitation(s) line(s)
>>        print line    # "classical" indented block
>>
> oups sorry I meant something like :
>
> with open('data.txt') as f :
>    for i, line in enumerate(mylist) :  # main line
>        mylist : f.read().split('\n')    # explicitation(s) line(s)
>        print(i, line)    # "classical" indented block

I don't know where you got the word "explicitation" -- I've never
heard of it. (Maybe it's French? You sound French. :-) However, this
feature existed in ABC under the name "refinement". See
http://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/abc/qr.html#Refinements

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