Am 23.05.2011 22:51, schrieb Adam D. Ruppe: > bearophile wrote: >> For them spaces are nothing, they don't even see them, so for them >> braces are probably better > > This is the biggest thing that trips me up with Python. Something > indenting inward is pretty easy to see, but going outward is often > skipped by my eyes. > > def foo(): > # i see this change > > # but here I don't register the change and think I'm still in foo() > > > I wonder if part of the confusion is from indented paragraphs > in normal English. The most difficult thing to see is two or more > indents changing at once though... counting groups of spaces is > weird.
Scintilla based editors (like SciTE and Geany) have indentation guides, see http://www.joeflash.ca/blog/2009/03/indentation-guides-in-flex-builder.html for a screenshot (that's not my page, I found this via google). That should help. Cheers, - Daniel
