On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Garrett Cooper <yaneg...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was wondering whether this was a parser bug or feature (seems > like a bug, in particular because it implicitly encourages bad syntax, > but I could be wrong). The grammar notes (for 2.7 at least [1]) don't > seem to explicitly require a space between 'in' and another parser > token (reserved work, expression, operand, etc), but I could be > misreading the documentation.
The grammar doesn't require whitespace there. It tends to be flexible about whitespace wherever it's not necessary to resolve ambiguity. >>> x = [3, 2, 1] >>> x [0]if x [1]else x [2] 3 >>> 1 . real 1 >>> 1.5.real 1.5 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
