The use of :

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

In <41aa1abb$0$25542$636a15ce at news.free.fr>, bruno modulix wrote:

> <please-someone-correct-me-if-i-am-wrong>
> In fact, from a purely technical POV, the ':' could have been omitted 
> from the Python syntax, since indentation does the whole job of defining 
> blocks. It's only here for readability AFAIK.
> </please-someone-correct-me-if-i-am-wrong>

The ':' serves as a very good hint to "python aware" text editors to
automagically indent the next line after hitting return.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch