A desperate lunge for on-topic-ness

[Ian Kelly]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Dave Angel <d at davea.name> wrote:
> I never use the backslash at end-of-line to continue a statement to the
> next.  Not only is it a readability problem, but if your editor doesn't
> have visible spaces, you can accidentally have whitespace after the
> backslash, and wonder what went wrong.

Note the actual error message that you get in this case is:

"SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character"

Seems pretty transparent to me.