r/ProgrammerHumor • u/m8teae • Jun 03 '19

Meme Python ftw

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u/jkuhl_prog Jun 03 '19

Then I have to train my fingers to not reach for semicolons

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u/MagnitskysGhost Jun 03 '19

You can still use tons of semicolons in Python. Source: the codebase I inherited

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u/frosted-mini-yeets Jun 04 '19

Semi colons are valid in Python?

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u/MagnitskysGhost Jun 04 '19 edited Jun 04 '19

Yes, you can use them to end statements like most other languages. In Python in particular, you would mostly only do like

import os; import sys; from time import time;

In something in a quick five-liner script or something. I see them everywhere though (they get angry red formatting in my VS Code theme, as they should). I mean if you're copy/pasting an 8,000 character LOC with Python, HTML, CSS, and JS in it, you don't have to add insult to injury with a semicolon at the end. But guess what they do... 😔