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On 02/21/2013 02:26 PM, Piterrr wrote:
> Hi folks. I am a long time C sharp dev, just learning Python now due
> to job requirements. My initial impression is that Python has got to
> be the most ambiguous and vague language I have seen to date. I have
> major issues with the fact that white space matters. How do you deal
> with this?

Well I never use tabs in python files and I don't expect any python
source code file to either.  Any that do I consider to be a bug.

But as for whitespace syntax formatting in general, I love it.
Executable pseudo-code makes for more rapid development (and fewer
errors) than in any language I have used to date.