Using something other than ';' to separate statements

[André Roberge]

Jaime Wyant wrote:
[snip]
> 
> After goofing around with this idea, I've realized you can't be very
> expressive with a bunch of python statements strung together.  My
> biggest problem is that I can't figure out (i don't think you can),
> how to do conditionals that are strung together:
> 
> # This won't work
> if a > 5: print "a > 5";else print "Doh"
> 
> I've decided to just call a function from the semicolon delimited
> record, using the return value in my `C' app...

The following might work based on the context:
code = '''if a > 5: \n    print "a > 5"\nelse:\n    print "Doh"\n'''

or, formatted differently

code = '''
if a > 5:
     print "a > 5"
else:
     print "Doh"
'''

Then, you could do
exec(code)

> 
> Yeah, I tried to "make it work", but it just won't.  At least not in a
> satisfactory way.
> 
> Thanks!
> jw

André