Line continuation and comments

[Paul Bryan]

Adding to this, there should be no reason now in recent versions of
Python to ever use line continuation. Black goes so far as to state
"backslashes are bad and should never be used":

https://black.readthedocs.io/en/stable/the_black_code_style/future_style.html#using-backslashes-for-with-statements

On Wed, 2023-02-22 at 01:24 -0800, Edmondo Giovannozzi wrote:
> Il giorno mercoledì 22 febbraio 2023 alle 09:50:14 UTC+1 Robert
> Latest ha scritto:
> > I found myself building a complicated logical condition with many
> > ands and ors 
> > which I made more manageable by putting the various terms on
> > individual lines 
> > and breaking them with the "\" line continuation character. In this
> > context it 
> > would have been nice to be able to add comments to lines terms
> > which of course 
> > isn't possible because the backslash must be the last character on
> > the line. 
> > 
> > Question: If the Python syntax were changed to allow comments after
> > line-ending 
> > backslashes, would it break any existing code? I can't think of an
> > example.
> 
> Well you can if you use parenthesis like in:
> x = 5
> a = (x > 3 and
> #     x < 21 or
>      x > 100
>      )
> You don't need the "\" to continue a line in this case
>