On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 10:03:00AM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: > It's very hard to fix the indenting when you're copying code from a > web forum/email archive/whatnot that mangled it. Been there done > that. Pythons behavior in this regard makes it very aggravating to > work with as a newcomer, and for many people who are a little > suspicious of the whole whitespace thing, when your first taste of > the language is hours spent fixing the whitespace, you aren't > inclined to use it any more than necessary.
I agree that copy/paste from the web would be challenging for newcomers. Pastes from the web do horrible things to indenting. If you aren't comfortable with Python it'd be a huge pain. -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG dwchand...@stilyagin.com | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation
