Why is semicolon allowed in this Python snippet?

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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8236...

Answer 1 links:
[8. Compound statements]: http://docs.python.org/reference/compoun...

Answer 3 links:
[REPL]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read-eval-...
[IDLE]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDLE
[IPython]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPython

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