I suspected as much--that counting spaces might get tedious, that is.
For my own programs, at least, I've found that one space is
sufficient. So, for example, if I write a function, I indent the
lines in the body
by one space, if I have conditional (if) or loop (while) structures
in the function I indent by two spaces, etc. In light of the ease of
programming in python, I've decided to continue on, at least for the
time being.
Rafael
On Apr 20, 2007, at 5:40 PM, yvonne thomson wrote:
On 20/04/2007, at 9:30 AM, Rafael Bejarano wrote:
Hello Yvonne,
Thanks for your prompt reply.
Actually, I've alreaddy started teaching myself python, and I've
found that I can determine the number of spaces by which a line is
indented by counting from the end of the previous line. After
enabling control-option-lock (by pressing the control, option, and
semicolon keys at the same time) it's a simple matter of pressing
shift-right-arrow to get to the beginning of the following line
and begin counting the spaces. I'm sure this can become quite
tedious when writing large programs, but I thought I'd let you
know how I've been circumventing the problem, just in case you
weren't aware of this option.
Rafael
Hi
Trust me, that's how *I* was doing it. But also trust me. You
simply *can't* get anywhere doing that once you end up with
reasonable sized programs. particularly when you're reading other
peoples programs that you aren't as familiar with, it gets
incredibly tedious. There're a lot of other things a programmer has
to keep in their heads. Having to manually count spaces as well,
particularly since the usual indent level for python is 4 spaces,
is just way distracting. Or at least, that was my experience.
