my original suggestion for ratpy wasn't taken seriously, so i'll propose it again:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.plan9/msg/29eb245edcb78e91 >>> I don't use Python for this very reason. This is probably why >>> Ruby exists. I will not use your language for the same reason. >>> By adopting such draconian white space rules you automatically >>> alienate a large number of programmers. >> >> A blind programmer once told me that Python's whitespace block >> structure was simply too high of a barrier for him to use it. > > straying off-topic, but ... > > the Python distribution includes a tool called 'pindent'. it happily > annotates Python source with block-closing comments and converts > haphazardly indented source with block-closing comments into > correctly indented Python source. > > http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/Tools/scripts/pindent.py
