On 07/11/2011 04:36 PM, Dave Angel wrote: > The character you're asking about is the colon. It goes at the end of > an if, else, for, with, while statement. I doubt it's absolutely > essential, but it helps readability, since a conditional expression > might span multiple lines. > if someexpression == > someotherexpression: > body_of_the_conditional
That, of course, is not legal Python. Your point stands when you add brackets or a backslash to hold the condition together. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
