On 5 October 2016 at 17:26, Nick Coghlan
Compared to those, locally modifying the token stream to inject ": INDENT" pairs when the if and for keywords are encountered between an opening "for" keyword and a closing ":" keyword would be a relatively straightforward change that only impacted folks that decided they preferred that particular flavour of Abbreviated Python to the regular version.
It's also worth noting that the obvious response "but I don't want to have to run a preprocessor against my code" is another indication that this isn't solving a significant enough problem to warrant a language change. Again, this isn't a hard and fast rule, but it is a useful rule of thumb - how much effort are you willing to go to to get this feature without it being built in? That's one of the reasons "it should be made into a module on PyPI" is a useful counter to proposals for new stdlib functions. It's also worth looking at the cases where things get added despite not going via that route - sometimes "being built in" is an important benefit of itself. But typically that's because people are encouraged to use built in facilities, so guiding beginners (or not-so-beginners) into good practice is important. In this case, it's far from clear that the feature is actually good practice. Paul