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Re: Why not allow empty code blocks?

On Saturday, July 23, 2016 at 9:49:51 AM UTC+8, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Because it cannot tell the difference between an empty code block and > failing to indent the code block: > > for x in sequence: > print('loop') Thanks for the excellent answer! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/

Why not allow empty code blocks?

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Re: can't add variables to instances of built-in classes

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can't add variables to instances of built-in classes

Hi, I can add new variables to user-defined classes like: >>> class Test: ... pass ... >>> a=Test() >>> a.x=100 but it doesn't work if the instances belong to a built-in class such as str or list: >>> a='abc' >>> a.x=100 Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in Attribu

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On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:02:24 +, Ben Bullock wrote: > I'm a big fan of code samples - most of my code starts as other people's > code samples. What I think is missing, Xah, is that the actual result. I.e, showing that "you can do this" only covers less than half of the tutorial, showing what