James wrote:
> Wrong syntax is shown below. What should be the delimiter before else?
>
> python -c 'if 1==1: print "yes"; else print "no"'
Now this is interesting. I broke the line up into separate arguments and it
seemed to work fine:
$ python -c 'if 1==1: print "yes"' 'else: print "no"'
yes
But then I tested the else branch and it produces no output:
$ python -c 'if 1==0: print "yes"' 'else: print "no"'
$
If putting the else in a separate arg unbinds it from the if, I would expect
a syntax error. If OTOH naked elses are allowed on the command line for
some odd reason, then this shouldn't happen:
$ python -c 'else: print "no"'
File "<string>", line 1
else: print "no"
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
What's with the silent failure in the two-arg version? If the else arg is
syntactically acceptable, why doesn't it behave as expected?
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