Trailing comma (was: Re: structure in Python)
Patrick Maupin
pmaupin at speakeasy.net
Thu Oct 23 22:53:28 EDT 2003
Cousin Stanley wrote:
> The style that looks the most natural and seems the easiest
> to extend and edit to me is ....
>
> x = [ 'fe' ,
> 'fi' ,
> 'fo' ,
> 'fum' ]
Other people have raised some good points as to why using
trailing commas can be better, but for my money the best
reason to consistently use trailing commas is how a CVS
(or other) diff will look later. You can either see
one deleted line plus two added lines, or a single added
line, your choice.
Pat
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