Yes, I see your point.

Well, for now I am voting for issue1634034 to get some sort of
resolution, as Serhiy mentioned, as it might help this scenario as
well.

Cheers!

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Ezio Melotti <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Ezio Melotti added the comment:
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>> This would all be a bit simpler if an indent was obligatory after
>> inserting a newline in the middle of a command.
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> This is not such a bad idea, but it is not backward-compatible and it would be inconsistent with how parentheses works in other situations.
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> Developers usually learn that they should look back at least till the previous line while investigating syntax errors.  Even in C (and similar languages) it's common that errors reported on one line are caused by e.g. a missing ';' on the previous line.
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