Why the colon?

[Chris Barker]

Carel Fellinger wrote:

> > Then what am I to make of the colons at the end of lines 1 and
> > 2?  "Yoo-hoo, interpreter!  I'm about to start indenting now!"  Hmmm....

> So it's there for the most
> Pythonic of all Pythonic virtues: readability.

It also makes it easier to write auto-indenting editors, though I'm not
sure that's a good excuse.

-CHB


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