buffi wrote: > Am I the only one that thinks that python statements should force > whitespace before and after them? > > Right now this is not enforced and for an example these statements are > valid > > print"hello" > "foo"if"bar"else"foobar" > for(x,y)in[(1,2),(3,4)]:print(x,y) > [(y)for(x,y)in[("foo",2),("bar",4)]if"foo"in(x)] > > ...and so on. > > I know that writing code like this really shouldn't be done but > wouldn't it be a good idea to enforce the use of whitespace around > statements? > > (I wrote a short blog post about this here http://blog.buffis.com/?p=55 > but thought I would post here as well to see what other developers > think) > - Björn Kempén >
You may have a point--but on the other hand, this may be purposefully allowed help to recruit perl programmers. James -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list