Python is readable

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 01:48:09 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> In a trivial example, it's mostly just noise:
>>
>> if a == b    # who needs the colon?
>>     print(c)
>
> The reader, for the same reason that above you wrote:
>
> "In a trivial example, it's mostly just noise COLON"
>
> and indeed I too used a colon for the same reason. It ties the lead
> sentence to the following block without ending the sentence, but still
> introducing a new grouping or clause.

Yep. As everyone who communicates on the internet knows, punctuation
can often be omitted without introducing ambiguity. That doesn't mean
it *should* be omitted. NOT TELEGRAMS TODAY STOP

ChrisA