another way to make Python easier

[Skaperen]

Python already accepts an extra comma after the last item of a source sequence of expressions, such as forming a list:

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mylist = [ 'foo', 'bar', ]

that allows scripts that generate to need to deal with skipping the code that outputs the comma after the last item, for example.

another idea i have applies to having an "if" statement followed by a bunch of "elif" statements. the idea is to allow "elif" as an alternative of "if" for a similar reason... so the code generator does not have to check if this is the first.

[Gribouillis]

It doesn't work, the grammar becomes ambiguous.

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if a:    ... if b:    ... elif c:    ...

cannot be equivalent to

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if a:    ... elif b:    ... elif c:    ...