On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Cilantro MC wrote: >> >> I prefer using the semicolons... They aren't making my code wrong... I use >> other programming languages from time to time, and I'd rather just always >> use >> semicolons, as with the parentheses. > > > It's your choice, but just be aware that other Python > programmers reading your code will find it annoying, > and it's not generally a good idea to annoy people > that you're asking for help. :-)
Or, worse, to confuse us as to the purpose of your code. People here are used to spotting bugs, and that bug-spotting is hugely aided by certain conventions - many of which are laid out in PEP 8 [1], though of course you don't need to follow all of those guidelines. I'm a polyglot programmer, myself, so I completely understand your desire to put semicolons around the place. Actually, my work in C/C++ and Pike, where semicolons are mandatory, isn't why I want to put them in; no, it's because of JavaScript, where they're technically optional but the omission can sometimes lead to misparsing of code - THAT is where I'll be careful to put them in. Omit a semi in C? Simple compilation error, almost certainly. Omit one in JS? Works perfectly... or at least seems to. Omit them all in Python? Actually genuinely works perfectly. :) ChrisA [1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
