[Python-Dev] re: Attribute Strings

[Nick Bastin]

On Aug 8, 2004, at 5:20 PM, Edward K. Ream wrote:

>> The second is not a valid string literal now --
>
> That's why I suggested it.  ""@" would be a new token, so the statement
> about '@' in the delims section would remain essentially unchanged.

I don't know if anyone is actually seriously considering this, but I'm 
-1.  We're venturing into an area where the syntax makes people really 
not want to use the feature (and ""@" probably doesn't please the 
people who don't like the aesthetics of '@', so all we're doing is 
fixing the problem for IPython and a few other corner people).

My impression is that <something>-before-def is going to be The 
Syntax(tm), but Guido is content to let <something> be something other 
than '@'.  If that's the case, then I'm not sure what all the alternate 
placement syntaxes are being proposed for.  If that's not the case, 
then I'll start lobbying harder for <something>-after-def (although not 
""@")... ;-)

--
Nick