i was just perusing a Wikipedia entry on the "off side rule" at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-side_rule . It says that the colon in Python is purely for readability, and cites our FAQ entry http://www.python.org/doc/faq/general.html#why-are-colons-required-for-the-if-while-def-class-statements . However, near the top of the Alternatives section, it states that for C type, curly braces using languages: "An advantage of this is that program code can be automatically reformatted and neatly indented without fear of the block structure changing".
Thinking about it a little, it seems that a colon followed by non-indented code that has just been pasted in could also be used by a Python-aware editor as a flag to re-indent the pasted code. Tell me it is not so, or I will be editing the Wikipedia page I think. And if it is true then do we need to update the FAQ? - Paddy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
