"Data blocks" syntax specification draft

[Chris Lindsay]

So this is a syntax for defining large blocks of static data in-line with
code.

If a block of static data is large enough to start to be ugly, a common
approach is to load the data from some other file, in a language which is
designed around structured data. YAML comes to mind - it has minimal
punctuation, and whitespace as syntax, with little in the way of syntax
ambiguity since it isn't already a scripting language.

What use-case do you foresee for your proposed new format, that isn't
already (better) accomplished by using a separate structured
data/serialisation language?

On 21 May 2018 at 10:21, Steven D'Aprano <
steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:

> On Mon, 21 May 2018 01:28:51 +0300, Mikhail V wrote:
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> > Source examples on
> > Github will force a crappy font and replace tabs.
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> Is that supposed to convince us that using mandatory TABs is a good idea?
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Chris
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