P*rl in Latin, whither Python?

[Erik Max Francis]

"Philip 'Yes, that's my address' Newton" wrote:

> Excuse me? The way I read that, you're saying "whitespace is entirely
> optional
> in Python". I find that hard to believe.

I wondered the same thing.  My guess is that he meant that whitespace
can sometimes be omitted within a line, such as:

    x = x + 1
    x=x+1 # does the same thing

Obviously, of course, that isn't true for indentation, where quite on
the contrary, whitespace is _mandatory_.

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