Dear Python Developers,
I would like to share my thoughts on the use of the colon mark “:” in
Python code.
In my opinion, using a colon after keywords such as `if`, `elif`, `else`,
`for`, `while`, `try`, `except`, and `finally` is quite unnecessary.
Using mandatory indentation in Python to
I like the idea of eliminating it if it was possible. This is one of my most
common syntax errors (although mostly after function signature) and I am not
C/C++ programmer. I am not sure about the core technical issues, but
readability of code, such as:
a = 1
while a < 5: a += 1
, would suffer:
