Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!bcyclone05.am1.xlned.com!bcyclone05.am1.xlned.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.001 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'modify': 0.07; 'nested': 0.07; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'things,': 0.09; 'language.': 0.14; 'blocks': 0.16; 'indent': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'code,': 0.22; 'manual': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'issue,': 0.24; 'header:X -Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'correct': 0.29; 'code': 0.31; 'indentation': 0.31; 'subject: (': 0.35; "can't": 0.35; 'editor': 0.35; 'hundreds': 0.35; 'idle': 0.36; 'subject:New': 0.37; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'removing': 0.60; 'our': 0.64; 'temporary': 0.65; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.65; 'lack': 0.78; 'lot,': 0.93 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: New to Python - block grouping (spaces)yhoni Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 18:46:49 +0100 References: <9fc57fc9-0399-4ff3-882a-d041f02827d8@googlegroups.com> <552F772B.8030201@rece.vub.ac.be> <552f9264$0$11092$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-78-147-186-84.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 17 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1429206470 news.xs4all.nl 2843 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:34514 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl X-Received-Bytes: 3692 X-Received-Body-CRC: 821386381 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:89041 On 16/04/2015 14:44, BartC wrote: > > * I modify code a lot, adding and removing extra nested blocks all the > time. My editor can't indent or un-indent blocks without a lot of manual > typing. With block-delimited schemes, this isn't an issue, as temporary > lack of correct indentation isn't crucial. > The year is 2015, not 1520. Get an editor that can indent and dedent code, there's tens if not hundreds of the things, IDLE included. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence