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Re: Problem with the "for" loop syntax

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On 20Jun2013 13:55, Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> wrote:
| On 2013-06-20, Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> wrote:
| > On 20 June 2013 04:11, Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> wrote:
| >> Also, opening-and-not-closing a set of brackets is almost the
| >> only way in Python to make this kind of error (syntax at one
| >> line, actual mistake far before).
| >>
| >> See if your editor has a show-the-matching-bracket mode.
| >> If you suspect you failed to close a bracket, one approach is
| >> to go _below_ the syntax error (or right on it) and type a
| >> closing bracket. Then see where the editor thinks the opening
| >> one is.
| >
| > Thanks for that, that's quite an ingenious technique.
| 
| The auto-indent feature of Vim catches this type of syntax error,
| and I imagine other good autoindent support will do the same.

Interesting. I use autoindent but grew up with it for prose.
I hadn't realised vim's support inderstaood python indentation.
I'll have to pay more attention...
-- 
Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>

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Re: Problem with the "for" loop syntax Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> - 2013-06-20 14:39 +0100
  Re: Problem with the "for" loop syntax Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-06-20 13:55 +0000
    Re: Problem with the "for" loop syntax Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-06-21 01:45 +1000
    Re: Problem with the "for" loop syntax Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2013-06-21 08:38 +1000
      Re: Problem with the "for" loop syntax Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-06-21 14:36 +0000

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