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Op 10-09-13 12:20, Chris Angelico schreef:
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
>> What design mistakes, traps or gotchas do you think Python has? Gotchas
>> are not necessarily a bad thing, there may be good reasons for it, but
>> they're surprising.
> 
> Significant indentation. It gets someone every day, it seems.
> 

Not only that. There are a lot of python code snippets on the net
that for whatever reason lost their indentation. There is no
algorithm that can restore the lost structure.

-- 
Antoon Pardon