Incorrect colon placement after semicolon

[H0R5E]

Description of your problem

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Open Spyder
2. Open a python file
3. Write a one line if statement such as if True: print "Yes!";
4. Press enter

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

The semicolon should indicate that the if statement is finished and no colon in required.

Instead, Spyder places a colon after the semicolon giving something like this:

if True: print "Yes!";:

This will cause an invalid syntax error

Please provide any additional information below

Versions and main components

• Spyder Version: 2.3.8
• Python Version: 2.7.11
• Operating system: Win64

Dependencies

Please go to the menu entry Help > Optional Dependencies (or
Help > Dependencies), press the button Copy to clipboard
and paste the contents below:

IPython >=1.0 : 4.1.2 (OK)
jedi >=0.8.1;<0.9.0: 0.9.0 (NOK)
matplotlib >=1.0 : 1.5.1 (OK)
pandas >=0.13.1 : 0.18.0 (OK)
pep8 >=0.6 : 1.7.0 (OK)
pyflakes >=0.5.0 : 1.1.0 (OK)
pygments >=1.6 : 2.1.1 (OK)
pylint >=0.25 : None (NOK)
qtconsole >=4.0 : 4.2.0 (OK)
rope >=0.9.2 : 0.9.4 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6 : 1.3.5 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.3 : 1.0 (OK)
zmq >=2.1.11 : 15.2.0 (OK)

[H0R5E]

I also noticed it happen with an "if" statement in a list comprehension split over two lines. The following will trigger an unwanted colon:

yes_list = [x for x in [None, None, None, "Yes!"]
                                                if x is not None]

[Nodd]

You're right, this is a real problem. It has already been reported in #872, but nobody had the time to fix it yet.
I'm closing this one as a duplicate.

[H0R5E]

I don't know how, but for some reason, after 6 years of Python programming, I have always believed that a semicolon was required to terminate a single line if statement. Thank God for find and replace....

EDIT: In fact, thank God for "Find in files". This is an awesome feature and I use it a lot.