On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 08:49:03AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: | On 17-Nov-03, 05:15 (CST), Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > I have one grudge against python, though: its mandated indentation looks | > very ugly and unstructured to me. Kinda reminds me of COBOL (and boy, do | > I have nightmares of having to write COBOL code at school) | | As a long-time C coder, I agreed with you. But after doing a small | python project, I was surprised at how quickly it became natural. It | does help to have an editor that ensures you don't mix spaces and tabs.
I believe that tabs aren't a problem with Python so long as they really do indent to a multiple of 8 spaces. Editors which interpret tabs differently are broken^W^W can cause problems when editing Python code with tabs and spaces mixed though. Vim, Kate and Emacs all work admirably for editing Python code. | Steve, who would not object to the removal of character 9 from the ASCII | set, even without the existence of Python. :-) Cameron.