Py3K idea: why not drop the colon?

[Terry Reedy]

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>    >> I confess I find myself in the position of a Yorkshire Youngster - 
> I
>    >> don't believe you!
>
>    Robert> Okay, not often enough or annoyingly enough for me to remember
>    Robert> having done so.  Perhaps seven years ago when I started using
>    Robert> Python, but not any time recent.
>
> If your editor knows about Python's block structure (as Emacs's 
> python-mode
> does), when you forget the colon it's immediately obvious because the 
> next
> line doesn't autoindent properly.

The same is true of the editor in IDLE.