Thanks, everybody, for the very very useful and kind responses. There is a second reason why I asked the question about automatic de- indenting. I am teaching myself Python partly so I can then help my technically astute, but blind friend learn programming. For the many reasons that Pythonistas like to cite often, I thought Python would be a good choice to learn programming, and that perhaps the indentation problem would be solved by the use of an intelligent editor.
But now I am not so sure, though I will try Emacs. Is there anyone here with experience in such issues ? Maybe for her sake, I should switch to learning Perl ;) ;) More seriously, the added issue is that SPE uses spaces, not a single tab to indent the lines, and I believe it is extremely tedious to use screen-readers to keep track of blank spaces at the beginning of each line. I have not tried it myself yet, but I will soon. Is Python a bad choice for the blind programmer, as a result of a tight linkage between visual aspects of the code and its function ? I wish the site blindprogramming.com weren't so lifeless... Thanks, Suresh -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
