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Comment by labawi | Hacker News Reader

Python actually has ';', and I think you can write everything in one line if you really want to, e.g. in an inline script

  python3 -c 'import math; tau=math.pi*2; r=1; u=r*tau; s=r*r*tau/2; v=r*r*r*tau*2/3; print(u,s,v)'

In this simple script you can, but eventually you need an loop or something and you realize you're kind of stuck:

before_loop; while something: step1; step2; after_loop;

Note that after_loop is still inside the loop. Also you can't have multiple colons on the same line, so this doesn't work either:

if test: do_this; else: do_that

That gives a syntax error