In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, bruno modulix wrote: > <please-someone-correct-me-if-i-am-wrong> > In fact, from a purely technical POV, the ':' could have been omitted > from the Python syntax, since indentation does the whole job of defining > blocks. It's only here for readability AFAIK. > </please-someone-correct-me-if-i-am-wrong>
The ':' serves as a very good hint to "python aware" text editors to automagically indent the next line after hitting return. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list