Why not allow empty code blocks?

[Antoon Pardon]

Op 29-07-16 om 13:14 schreef D'Arcy J.M. Cain:
> On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 10:58:35 +0200
> Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon at rece.vub.ac.be> wrote:
>> As BartC already mentions it happens fairly often during debugging.
>> Something like.
>>
>> try:
>>    Some code
>> except Some_Exception:
>>    # Commented code for when I am debugging <Some code>
>>    pass
> I realize that that's a simplified example but really, isn't this just
> as easy?
>
> try:
>    Some code
> # except Some_Exception:
>    # Commented code for when I am debugging <Some code>

That code doesn't behave the same.

> If your code block really is one line is "pass #" really so much more
> of a hardship than "#"?  If it is a large block use "pass #@#" which is
> easy to remove with a search and replace.

Whose talking about hardschip? I don't trouble my self with removing
the pass statement when the debugging code is active. But Chris seemed
to suggest a situation like above was really rare, so I answered his
question.

-- 
Antoon.