> Actually more that in the interpreter, it's prompting me with ... as if I had left out a closing ) or something, but, suppose it could work fine in an actual imported bit of code?
That's how it's supposed to work. Given that Python block structure is determined by indentation, you need some way to tell the interactive interpreter that the block is ended. Skip
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