[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bengt Richter) writes: [block end statements] > Training wheels do no belong as a permanent part of a bicycle,
Yes, but they would be useful for example in web programming (embedding Python into HTML), too. So they are not only training wheels. But that's not so important. What Python got really wrong is mixing binding and assignment (because this way you have little chance to catch typos in identifiers). -- Stefan. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list