On Friday 25 March 2005 08:39 am, Ivan Van Laningham wrote: > As far as grouping by indentation goes, it's why I fell in love with > Python in the first place. Braces and so on are just extraneous cruft > as far as I'm concerned. It's the difference between Vietnamese verbs > and Latin verbs;-)
Say I buy into the indentation ideology. Python then has this inconsistency: : Why do we need : at the end of our if and for loops? I spend approximately 6 minutes/100 lines of code going back and finding all of the times I missed :. Is it for cheating? if False: print ":" Now, what happened to the whitespace idea here? This code seems very unpythonic. I think : is great for slices and lamda where things go on one line, but to require it to specify the start of a block of code seems a little perlish. -- James Stroud, Ph.D. UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
