From c5f4d78b56cd880b0ea0885c62e17cacde9141b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=89ric?= <merwok@netwok.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2022 00:44:11 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] PEP 8: update text about backlash (#2244)

---
 pep-0008.txt | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pep-0008.txt b/pep-0008.txt
index f4ae81d5c8f..3939cba1572 100644
--- a/pep-0008.txt
+++ b/pep-0008.txt
@@ -227,8 +227,8 @@ parentheses. These should be used in preference to using a backslash
 for line continuation.
 
 Backslashes may still be appropriate at times.  For example, long,
-multiple ``with``-statements cannot use implicit continuation, so
-backslashes are acceptable::
+multiple ``with``-statements could not use implicit continuation
+before Python 3.10, so backslashes were acceptable for that case::
 
     with open('/path/to/some/file/you/want/to/read') as file_1, \
          open('/path/to/some/file/being/written', 'w') as file_2: