Plus, finding the change isn't that hard, compared to munging your 1 or 2 line assignment into 30. A good diff will tell you: foo = [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Plus, finding the change isn't that hard, compared to munging your 1 or 2 line assignment into 30. A good diff will tell you: foo = [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 ] vs. >> foo = [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 ] Better ones will underline the offending characters.