contrib: enforce wrapping too-long lines with () instead of \ This is the style I prefer, and an anecdotal exploration of styles recommended in style guides etc. Further, to quote pep8: > The preferred way of wrapping long lines is by using Python's implied > line continuation inside parentheses, brackets and braces. Long lines > can be broken over multiple lines by wrapping expressions in > parentheses. These should be used in preference to using a backslash > for line continuation. So I think this is a virtuous change. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D5995