On Monday 27 February 2006 15:10, you wrote: > So in essence, a multi-line statement is closed when a completely empty > line is found, As I read this reference, such handling of completely empty lines is done only in interactive mode, ie. when python is attached to a terminal... Git is about storing python scripts, and not "interactive input"; therefore, this seems to be a non-issue. I just checked it. The following, with a completely empty line 3, is working as expected, and not looping on an empty statement: =================== a = ['cat', 'window', 'defenestrate'] for x in a: print x, len(x) =================== Josef PS: I am not a python programmer... - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html