Python Rocks! - ASP problem?

Wed Jan 19 05:13:43 EST 2000

I am a newbie as well.  I don't know whether it is better or worse only time
will tell.  The one place where I believe it causes a problem is with ASP.  One
can do the following thing in vbscript
<%
    if some_condition then
%>
        <html stuff here>
<%
    end if
%>

This conditionally put the html code into the page.  If I remember right,
python can't do this in ASP because an end marker is needed.  I would say that
python probably was not designed with ASP in mind.

tye4 wrote:

> I'm a python newbie.. but I like Python better than Perl (no ugly @$#@.. in
> syntax).
>
> Python does have one quirk: no end if or end loops
>
> if x == 10:
>     print 'x is 10'
> print 'Hello world'
>
> # easy to get confused whether this line is in 'if' block or not
> Having an 'end' block would help tremendously.
>
> if x == 10:
>     print 'x is 10'
> end if
> print 'Hello World'
>
> or
> for x in range(1, 10):
>     print x,
> end loop
>
> Indentation is a confusing and lame way to separate what is inside a block
> and what's outside it.
>
> tye4