On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 10:44:32AM -0400, John J. McDonough wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-04-09 at 09:54 -0400, Byron Jeff wrote:
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> > A statement ends at the end of the line. It's how the majority of code =
in
> > any language is written. Python simply codes for the common case (one
> > statement per line) and gives facilities for line continuation when nee=
ded.
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> Except the continuation isn't explicit like it is in bash.  The
> statement simply ends at the end of the line unless it doesn't.
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> In C the statement ends at the ;
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> In bash the statement ends at the end of the line unless the last
> character is a \

That's exactly how Python works. It uses backslash as an explicit
continuation character.

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> In FORTRAN-60 the statement ends at the end of the line unless the next
> line has a C in column 6
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> In COBOL the statement ends at the .
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> In Algol the statement ends at the ;
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> In Ada the statement ends at the ;
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> In Java the statement ends at the ;
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> In Pascal the statement ends at the ;
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> In Python, you just gotta guess.

No. Actually you don't. Python has explicit continuation (using backslash)
and implitic continuation with an unmatched parenthesis, bracket, or brace.

BAJ

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