[Python-3000] Single-line blocks?

Baptiste Carvello baptiste13 at altern.org
Fri Mar 23 23:34:38 CET 2007


Aahz a écrit :
> IIRC, there was some discussion about removing single-line blocks like
> this one in 3.0:
> 
>     if foo: bar()
> 
> However, I can't find any discussion about making it happen, and it's
> not in PEP 3099.  Guido, does this need a PEP?  Do you want it to happen?

please no.

Single line blocks may be bad style in programs, but they are very useful in
interactive use. Indeed, with readline, re-executing a single line block is as
easy as going up in the history. By contrast, multi-line block are a pain.

Baptiste



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