The tutor comments on a possibly surprising characteristic of Python.

Unlike Perl or Java, Python doesn’t use semicolons at the end of statements. Furthermore, it doesn’t use braces around loops. A loop body is indicated by indentation:

for i in range(3):
   print(“Hello, “)
   print(“how are you?”)
   print(“\n”)
print(“Cheers:)”)

yields the output

Hello,
how are you?
Hello,
how are you?
Hello,
how are you?
Cheers:)

Notice that the indented print statements are executed each pass through the loop, while the non-indented print statement is only executed once.

Python’s sparse use of punctuation might surprise programmers from other languages:)

Source:

Donaldson, Toby. Python, 3rd Edition. Peachpit Press, 2014.

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