Line continuation and comments

[Robert Latest]

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

I like that. Never thought of it.