Python Grammar (was Re: A TYPICAL NEWBIE MISTAKE?)

[Just van Rossum]

At 1:22 AM -0700 16-05-2000, Dirck Blaskey wrote:
>> Theoretically, a colon is only necessary in things like
>>
>> if yes: print "yes"
>
>Oddly enough, the parser doesn't really need the colon here either.
>It can manage to figure out where the if expression ends without it.

Erm, how would you parse this?

    if yes ()

That's either two expressions or just one...

Just