On 7/13/2011 2:26 AM, alex23 wrote:
Thomas Jollans<t...@jollybox.de> wrote:
Coincidentally, Guido wrote this blog post just last week, without which
I'd be just as much at a loss as you:
http://python-history.blogspot.com/2011/07/karin-dewar-indentation-an...
It's also part of the Python FAQ:
http://docs.python.org/faq/design.html#why-are-colons-required-for-the-if-while-def-class-statements
An added note: the header lines of compound statements do not
necessarily occupy just one physical line. The : signals the end of the
logical line. Editors can use to to indent intelligently. Consider
def myfunc(a,
b,
c):
return a+b+c
All indentation was done automatically by IDLE's editor.
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