Python is readable

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Mon Mar 19 10:38:33 EDT 2012


On 3/19/12 12:53 PM, Neil Cerutti wrote:

> I still think sentence fragments before a colon introducing a
> list often looks bad, and may be taken for an error. But it
> doesn't always look bad, and I didn't think about it enough.

One of my English teachers suggested a rule that seems to accord (descriptively) 
with the uses the "look good" and "look bad" to me: don't use a colon to 
separate a transitive verb from its objects.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco




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