Python syntax wart

[Stefan Behnel]

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message <46E390B7.2080808 at web.de>, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> 
>> He means he has to use backslashes instead of parentheses here.
>>
>> Which is not true, you could easily rephrase this as:
>>
>>     for link in GetEachRecord(
>>              "links",
>>              ....):
>>         out.write(
>>              ....
>>              )
>>
>> See? No backslash!
> 
> But then you can no longer use indentation to display the two-dimensional
> structure of the statement.

Not sure what you mean here, but most people wouldn't write such code anyway.

You could easily split it up as

    def format_record(record):
         return "<P..." % (
            record[...],
            record[...])

    link_records = GetEachRecord(
       ...
    )

    for record in link_records:
        out.write(format_record(record))

Which reads much better IMHO.

Stefan