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I am conviced by the consistency argument - if the standard 
definition of a line continue is literally an escaped 
newline ("\\n"), and white space between the escape and the 
newline isn't valid, then clearly Python's line continue 
should follow the same rules.

I'll just run a preprocessor to tidy up my python code.

On the plus side, I looked at the source code for the first 
time.  Pretty fun.