difference after remove

Christoph Haas email at christoph-haas.de
Mon Oct 24 09:26:08 EDT 2005


On Monday 24 October 2005 15:02, Shi Mu wrote:
> Is there any difference if I remove the '/'
> from the following statement?

You probably mean '\' instead of '/'.

> intMatrix2 = [[1,1,2,4,1,7,1,7,6,9],\
>              [1,2,5,3,9,1,1,1,9,1],\
>              [0,0,5,1,1,1,9,7,7,7]]
> print intMatrix2
> I removed one '\' and it still works.
> So what is the use of '\'?

It's a line continuation character. But you can omit it if it's clear to
the interpreter that the line must continue - like when using brackets.

 Christoph
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