On 11/4/2010 7:15 AM Neil Cerutti said... > The handsome ':' terminator of if/elif/if statements allows us to > omit a newline, conserving vertical space. This improves the > readability of certain constructs. > > if x: print(x) > elif y: print(y) > else: print() > Analogously, x+=1;y=f(x);return We don't have to eliminate ':'s. Emile