How do you protect yourself from missing comma in vertical string list in python?

Question

In python, it\'s common to have vertically-oriented lists of string. For example:

subprocess.check_output( [
  \'application\',
  \'-first-flag\',
  \'-secon         


        

Answer 1

You could wrap each string in parens:

subprocess.check_output( [
  ('application'),
  ('-first-flag'),
  ('-second-flag'),
  ('-some-additional-flag'),
] )

And btw, Python is fine with a trailing comma, so just always use a comma at the end of the line, that should also reduce errors.