<div><div>You've really only given one reason why braces are a good idea:</div><div><br></div><div><span>"I also appreciate single lined </span><span>conditional or loops once in a while."</span></div>
<div><span><br></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Not only is this argument even weaker than the two you yourself gave in defense of whitespace, these two features are already supported in Python. If you're not aware of them, perhaps you should spend some quality time with the documentation rather than suggesting unnecessary changes.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">-Marty</font></div>
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