list and implicit continuation may cause bugs in Python programs

[Roman Suzi]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Andreas Jung wrote:

>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Roman Suzi" <rnd at onego.ru>
>To: <python-list at python.org>
>Sent: Donnerstag, 12. Juli 2001 09:00
>Subject: list and implicit continuation may cause bugs in Python programs
>
>
>> FYI:
>>
>> Do not forget commas:
>>
>> list =[ "update", "y", "m", "d", "y1", "m1", "d1", "event", "url",
>>          "preview" ]
>>
>> list =[ "update", "y", "m", "d", "y1", "m1", "d1", "event", "url"
>>          "preview" ]
>>
>> Or Python will silently make:
>> ['update', 'y', 'm', 'd', 'y1', 'm1', 'd1', 'event', 'urlpreview']
>>
>> Does PyChecker check for these kind of things?
>>
>
>For what reason should it check ? Both is valid Python code. In the second
>case 'url' and 'preview' are concatenated. This is dedicated behaviour.
>
>Also the following is correct Python code:
>
>print "url" "preview"
>print "url","preview"
>
>So there is no way to determine the programmers intention at this point.

PyChecker is about determining ambiguity, like lint
will give you warnings about

if (a=b) { };

in C code.


Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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