[alfiopuglisi]

The day your wish is fullfilled is the day I stop working with Python. I can't stand all those useless braces everywhere, why are they there at all since good practice mandates proper indentation anyway?

I am at the point where I prefer single quotes for strings, instead of double quotes, just because they feel cleaner. And unfortunately pep8 sometimes mandates double quotes for reasons unknown.

[eviks]

Single quotes are also easier to type on the default layout, no Shift

[mg74]

No need for braces. Just add "end" for marking block ending to match the already block starting keyword ":".

[pansa2]

A while ago, when thinking about syntax design for a new language, I considered this combination (`:` and `end`, as opposed to `do` and `end` as used by Lua etc).

Are there any languages that use it, or is Python unique in using `:` to begin a block?

[dbrueck]

Nim uses it too.

IIRC, Python's predecessor (ABC) didn't have the trailing colon but they did some experiments and found it increased readability.