It's not uncommon for "pass" to be referred to as a control statement, although I see your point that it isn't exerting as much control over the flow of execution as others. As further evidence, this doc categorizes it as a "statement" within "flow control tools": http://docs.python.org/tutorial/controlflow.html
Michael On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 2:42 AM, Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckha...@dominolaser.com> wrote: > pass is not a control statement, it is just a placeholder to make it > explicit that there is nothing else to be expected here. > > Uli > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list