No: it's a nonstandard convention that would confuse other developers working on the project and it's not Pythonic. I'm not a huge fan of Python's significant whitespace, but if I'm going to code in Python, I want to make sure I follow the conventions of the language to the best of my knowledge.
I kind of meant this post as: if you could choose would python use braces, or if it was a choice that was widely available and built in, would you use it. And I get your point.
Ah, I misunderstood–my apologies! My answer is still "no" however: I'd rather have one blessed way of styling the code rather than the kind of semicolons vs no semicolons flame war that the JavaScript community has.
No: it's a nonstandard convention that would confuse other developers working on the project and it's not Pythonic. I'm not a huge fan of Python's significant whitespace, but if I'm going to code in Python, I want to make sure I follow the conventions of the language to the best of my knowledge.
I kind of meant this post as: if you could choose would python use braces, or if it was a choice that was widely available and built in, would you use it. And I get your point.
Ah, I misunderstood–my apologies! My answer is still "no" however: I'd rather have one blessed way of styling the code rather than the kind of semicolons vs no semicolons flame war that the JavaScript community has.
I should have clairified it more in the post (I just added that in an edit). I see your point about the semi-colons.