Problem with the "for" loop syntax

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2013-06-20, Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> wrote:
> On 20Jun2013 13:55, Neil Cerutti <neilc at norwich.edu> wrote:
>| On 2013-06-20, Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws at gmail.com> wrote:
>| > On 20 June 2013 04:11, Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> wrote:
>| >> Also, opening-and-not-closing a set of brackets is almost the
>| >> only way in Python to make this kind of error (syntax at one
>| >> line, actual mistake far before).
>| >>
>| >> See if your editor has a show-the-matching-bracket mode.
>| >> If you suspect you failed to close a bracket, one approach is
>| >> to go _below_ the syntax error (or right on it) and type a
>| >> closing bracket. Then see where the editor thinks the opening
>| >> one is.
>| >
>| > Thanks for that, that's quite an ingenious technique.
>| 
>| The auto-indent feature of Vim catches this type of syntax error,
>| and I imagine other good autoindent support will do the same.
>
> Interesting. I use autoindent but grew up with it for prose. I
> hadn't realised vim's support inderstaood python indentation.
> I'll have to pay more attention...

A standard Vim install autoindents Python tolerably well if
you've set filetype=python. If you've got a baked-in Python
interpreter you can get even more bells and whistles. The
standard executable installs I could find don't support Python 3,
so I haven't seen all the great stuff I'm missing.

-- 
Neil Cerutti