braces fixed '#{' and '#}'

Roy Smith roy at panix.com
Sat Jan 17 14:38:24 EST 2009


In article <mailman.7442.1232204734.3487.python-list at python.org>,
 Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:

> Roy Smith wrote:
> > In article 
> > <6264e675-ddd4-446a-822a-cc82e8f87446 at w1g2000prk.googlegroups.com>,
> >  v4vijayakumar <vijayakumar.subburaj at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> I saw some code where someone is really managed to import braces from
> >> __future__. ;)
> >>
> >> def test():
> >> #{
> >> 	print "hello"
> >> #}
> > 
> > That usage is obsolete.  Current best practice is:
> > 
> > def test():
> > """{"""
> >    print "hello"
> > """}"""
> 
> Which would be OK if it were syntactically valid ...
> 
> regards
>  Steve

Doh.  I'm sorry:

def test():
    """{"""
    print "hello"
    """}"""

This one I tested :-)



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