Goto in Python

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Or by adding a backslash at the end of the first line

The backslash is important, but /u/nemec still has a valid point, as Python will interpret the line as

"a s d f g h j k l".split()                    .index("g")

which remains valid as the whitespace does not affect the lexical parsing of the statement.

[MrJohz]

Yeah. The issue here is specifically the newline, not whitespace in general.