python review statements the python syntaxas with all languagesis very specific when it comes to statement structure the interpreter expects statement to be contained on single line of the text file sometimeshoweverwe need to split single statement across several lines in order to produce easily readable code or when following the specifications of programming style guide backslash (\can be used at the end of the line to continue the statement onto the next line result (somevalue anothervalue (originalvalue for function calls and method invocations that require pairs of parenthesesthe line can be broken without the use of backslashes the interpreter will parse the instructions across lines until the closing parenthesis is encountered for examplethe following will parse without errormyfunctionab"name"avg some constructs in python are compound statementswhich span multiple lines and consist of header and statement block statement blocksometimes simply referred to as blockis group of one or more statementsall of which are indented to the same indentation levelas illustrated by the following code segmentwhile < total + + compound statements are easily identified by the requirement of colon (:as part of their syntax statement blockswhich can be nested inside other blocksbegin on the next line following the header of the compound statement statement blocks end at the next blank line or the first statement whose indentation level is shorter than those in the block only statements within block or the parts of statement continued from previous line may be indented the number of spaces used to indent statements within block is irrelevantbut all statements within the block must have the same indentation level finallythe top-level statements of file can have no indentation caution statement block indentation all statements within given block must be indented with either blank spaces or tab charactersbut not mixture of the two the alignment of statements as displayed by some text editors can be misleading it' best to use an editor that can insert "soft tabswhen the tab key is pressed