python newbie: some surprises

[Yves Dorfsman]

Mensanator wrote:
>> 2. python requires to pass "self" to all instance methods
> 
> Who uses methods?

Is this a joke ?
What are the alternatives ?


> 
>> and I missed ":" often. :)
> 
> Try using something like Seed7, where you have to use "then" with
> "if" and "do" with "while" and "end" in every block. Maybe you'll
> come to appreciate significant whitespace and ":".

I see the point of the OP. Couldn't the new-line be used as an equivalent of 
  ':', for example, do you find this difficult to read:

if a == 3
   do_something()


if a == 3: do_something()


And surely, it should be easy to parse by the compiler.

Yves.
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