Py3K idea: why not drop the colon?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Bjoern Schliessmann wrote:

> Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
> 
>> No it doesn't -- look again at the example given above.  It's
>> legal syntax in Python but doesn't have the semantics implied by
>> the example.
> 
> Sorry, I don't understand -- what is the difference between the
> example as it is and the implied semantics of it?

 >>> color = "blue"
 >>> if color == "red" or "green" or "yellow":
...     print color, "is red or green or yellow"
...
blue is red or green or yellow

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