On 04/16/2015 06:07 AM, Blake McBride wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am new to Python. I am sorry for beating what is probably a dead horse but
> I checked the net and couldn't find the answer to my question.
>
> I like a lot of what I've seen in Python, however, after 35 years and
> probably a dozen languages under my belt, I very strongly disagree with the
> notion of using white space to delimit blocks. Not wanting to beat what I
> believe is probably a dead horse, I have one question.
>
> Is there a utility that will allow me to write Python-like code that includes
> some block delimiter that I can see, that converts the code into runnable
> Python code? If so, where can I find it?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Blake McBride
If you really want this, and don't like using comments to achieve this,
you can do the folling.
endfor = endif = enddef = endwhile = None
def poweri(a, i):
if i < 0:
i = -i
fac = 1.0 / a
else:
fac = a
endif
total = 1
while i:
if i % 2:
total *= fac
endif
fac *= fac
i /= 2
endwhile
return total
enddef
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