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

Here's another alternative:

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

Let Python insert the commas for you, this is especially useful for long lists of strings in configuration files