Ron Adam wrote: > Michael Hobbs wrote: > >> The same problem that is solved by not having to type parens around the >> 'if' conditional, a la C and its derivatives. That is, it's unnecessary >> typing to no good advantage, IMHO. I was coding in Ruby for several >> months and got very comfortable with just typing the if conditional and >> hitting return, without any extra syntax. When I came back to Python, I >> found that I felt annoyed every time I typed the colon, since it >> obviously isn't required. The FAQ says that the colon increases >> readability, but I'm skeptical. The indentation seems to provide more >> than enough of a visual clue as to where the if conditional ends. > > I'm not sure why '\'s are required to do multi-line before the colon.
Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules. Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
