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Re:5% of 666 Python repos had comma typo bugs (inc V8, Tenso... by wodenokoto on Friday January 07, 2022 @01:19PM (#29842655)
But wasn't this proposal part of the move to python 3? strings where broken left and right anyway.
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Re:5% of 666 Python repos had comma typo bugs (inc V8, Tenso... by gsnedders on Friday January 07, 2022 @02:46PM (#29843773)
Right, there was lots of deliberate breakage, _and_ this is purely syntaxual hence the sort of thing 2to3 could trivially deal with.
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Re:5% of 666 Python repos had comma typo bugs (inc V8, Tenso... by ehsankia on Friday January 07, 2022 @03:53PM (#29844657)
> the sort of thing 2to3 could trivially deal with

2to3 could also trivially add +, and if anything, that would actually help surface these kind of bugs, because if you randomly see a + in the middle of your list of strings, it's much easier to spot the bug than if there was a missing comma.

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