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

maybe for this particular case:

arglist = 'application -first-flag -second-flag -some-additional-flag'
arglist = arglist.split()
subprocess.check_output(arglist)

Or if you find yourself writing many unique lists like this make a macro that concatenates lines into a list form, so you avoid manually putting the comma.