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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 10:31:17 +1000
Subject: Re: semicolon at end of python's statements
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On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh
<mohsen@pahlevanzadeh.org> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm C++ programmer and unfortunately put semicolon at end of my
> statements in python.
>
> Quesion:
> What's really defferences between putting semicolon and don't put?

Very little. Putting the semicolon makes you look like a C programmer
who's new to Python; omitting it makes you look like you actually
understand Python :)

As a C and C++ programmer myself, I know where you're coming from, but
putting semicolons at the ends of Python statements is as useless as
putting ((((lots of (((irritating (((superfluous
(((parentheses))))))))))))) in your C++ code. The parser won't mind,
but subsequent programmers will wonder what these unnecessary
syntactic elements are for.

ChrisA