Chapter 2. Statements and Syntax

In this chapter we'll look at the following recipes:

• Writing python script and module files

• Writing long lines of code

• Including descriptions and documentation

• Better RST markup in docstrings

• Designing complex if...elif chains

• Designing a while statement which terminates

• Avoiding a potential problem with break statements

• Leveraging the exception matching rules

• Avoiding a potential problem with an except: clause

• Chaining exceptions with the raise from statement

• Managing a context using the with statement