Python - Continuing from single line if statement

Question

For example
if test == 1: x = 1; y = 1; z = 2
Would it be possible to not have the z = 2 within the if statement, while keeping it on the same line? Was just wondering if there was a way to do it, similar to how \ continues a line or ; ends one.

Even if for a moment we believe that is possible but what will you gain? save one line by compromising readability?P.S that is not possible — mad_, Oct 11 '18 at 20:37
It would be a reasonable request for one-liners to be run from the command line, but Python really isn't conducive to one-liners. — chepner, Oct 11 '18 at 20:38
what do you mean? show some psudocode maybe? you can do `x,y,z = 1,1,2` — Chris_Rands, Oct 11 '18 at 20:38
Some of [these](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6167127/how-to-put-multiple-statements-in-one-line) might help you if you need this for command line. — Benyomin Walters, Oct 11 '18 at 21:01

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 11 '18 at 20:44

Semi-colons only appear in one place in Python's grammar, as part of a simple statement:

simple_stmt: small_stmt (';' small_stmt)* [';'] NEWLINE

One place a simple statement occurs is in the definition of a suite:

suite: simple_stmt | NEWLINE INDENT stmt+ DEDENT

And a suite is the one and only thing that can comprise the body of an if statement:

if_stmt: 'if' test ':' suite ('elif' test ':' suite)* ['else' ':' suite]

From this, we can conclude that the only way to terminate the body of the if statement is with a newline or a DEDENT token. Since a DEDENT token can only occur with an INDENT token, which must follow a newline, you can see there is no way to put a statement that follows an if statement on the same line as the if itself.

Python - Continuing from single line if statement

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