redundant-backslash (E502)

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Derived from the pycodestyle linter.

Fix is always available.

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What it does

Checks for redundant backslashes between brackets.

Why is this bad?

Explicit line joins using a backslash are redundant between brackets.

Example

x = (2 + \
    2)

Use instead:

x = (2 +
    2)