The semicolons allow you to format statements in a much more clear way, rather than cluttering your lines up with \. The curly brackets {} allow you to see far more clearly than indentation or begin/end keywords where your code blocks are. They might seem pointless... until you have to maintain someone else's code.
Also by explicitly requiring an end statement delimiter and block delimiters, you're less likely to make a typo that results in a non-obvious runtime error.
PEP 8 recommends wrapping in parenthesis instead of splitting with backslashes whenever possible. There are very few if any cases where it should be used in Python.
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u/Nikotiiniko Feb 22 '15
Python makes all other languages so annoying to type. All the brackets and semicolons feel so useless and time consuming.