Michael Hobbs wrote: > But if the BDFL insists that it remains, why not > take the converse approach? That is, assume that the expression ends at > the colon, not at the newline. That would make this type of statement > possible:
I suggested something like this a while back. The answer then was that error messages in case of a forgotten colon would be misleading, at the wrong position, or both. Today: if a or b print x File "colontest.py", line 2 if a or b ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list