You refer to it here as a statement terminator, but in
the first posting you called it a statement separator.
I believe it is just a separator, not a terminator, and
as such is not even required unless you need/want to have
two statements on the same line.
Yeah, my thinking was that a separator implied terminator, because to
separate something has to have a beginning / ending. Sorry for the
inconsistency.
Anyway, I did want to be able to string a handful of statements
together in one "string". The python statements were one of the
semicolon delimited fields I'm working with -- which is where my
problem lied.
After goofing around with this idea, I've realized you can't be very
expressive with a bunch of python statements strung together. My
biggest problem is that I can't figure out (i don't think you can),
how to do conditionals that are strung together:
# This won't work
if a > 5: print "a > 5";else print "Doh"
I've decided to just call a function from the semicolon delimited
record, using the return value in my `C' app...
In all the tens of thousands of lines of Python code
I've written, I don't believe I've ever used a single
semicolon to separate two statements.
Perhaps you don't need them either...
Yeah, I tried to "make it work", but it just won't. At least not in a
satisfactory way.
Thanks!
jw