Parentheses (as after "print")

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 6:00 AM, Stefan Ram <ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
>>Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> writes:
>>>But would you also write this?
> ...
>>>    def(func(a,b,c)):
>>>        return(a+b+c)
>>No, this not.
>
>   What I wrote was like:
>
> func( a, b, c )
>     return a+b+c
>
>   Python could have taken the indentation of the
>   next line to tell that this is supposed to be
>   a function definition and not a function call.
>
>   I forgot »:« and »def«, and sometimes I forget
>   other things, but I never forgot the proper
>   indentation, never got the indentation wrong
>   so far, not even once.

That's a DWIMmy feature, and those are often *bad* in language design.
But if you can pin down your exact style (as here - you ALWAYS get the
indentation right), you could - in theory, at least - configure your
editor to notice that you left out the "def" and the colon, and add
them for you. Definitely wants to be an editor feature though.

ChrisA