In message <ib698e$q4...@reader1.panix.com>, Grant Edwards wrote: > IOW, editing a loop or other control structure where you couldn't see both > ends was problematic. Conserving vertical space avoids that problem.
No it doesn’t. It just moves it to a different, arbitrary, point a few percent away—not enough to be worth bothering about. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list