Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2a.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 0.003 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'subject:Python': 0.06; '21,': 0.07; 'pursuing': 0.07; 'reason,': 0.07; 'wednesday,': 0.07; '22,': 0.09; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'language.': 0.14; 'braces': 0.16; 'braces,': 0.16; 'declined.': 0.16; 'preparing': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'weapon': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'machine': 0.22; '>>>': 0.22; 'header:User- Agent:1': 0.23; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In- Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'along': 0.30; 'asked': 0.31; '>>>>': 0.31; 'chair,': 0.31; 'indentation': 0.31; 'maybe': 0.34; "i'd": 0.34; 'could': 0.34; 'subject: (': 0.35; 'something': 0.35; 'positive': 0.37; 'subject:New': 0.37; 'too': 0.37; 'somebody': 0.38; 'to:addr :python-list': 0.38; 'skip:- 10': 0.38; 'rather': 0.38; 'use.': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'days': 0.60; 'back': 0.62; 'high': 0.63; 'hear': 0.63; 'our': 0.64; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.65; 'pleasure': 0.74; '2015': 0.84; 'divine': 0.84; 'ecumenical': 0.84; 'rack': 0.84; 'received:as9105.com': 0.84; 'received:dsl.as9105.com': 0.84; 'received:dynamic.dsl.as9105.com': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: New to Python - block grouping (spaces) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 13:05:47 +0100 References: <9fc57fc9-0399-4ff3-882a-d041f02827d8@googlegroups.com> <6580b5d5-92f5-4bfa-b1d0-889c69fe82bb@googlegroups.com> <7tMYw.252071$SO1.39320@fx43.am4> <7413a8e7-b580-4b2f-84bc-dd13da2d36ba@googlegroups.com> <5533eb85$0$12992$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <16d59891-6e28-4256-870a-903bb75aa953@googlegroups.com> <09bdfda4-9154-460b-bc54-f227f1c1fd90@googlegroups.com> <80574d29-7db6-4f67-b667-6cdc980b77e5@googlegroups.com> <56e8beb8-88e3-4664-b95a-2875fa831bff@googlegroups.com> <069aea77-ef73-4220-8119-027f687b1945@googlegroups.com> <2817b1c8-d86d-4278-a7b8-ecfb56942dcf@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80-42-238-59.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 In-Reply-To: <2817b1c8-d86d-4278-a7b8-ecfb56942dcf@googlegroups.com> 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: 29 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1429704380 news.xs4all.nl 2948 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:49366 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:89292 On 22/04/2015 12:37, Rustom Mody wrote: > On Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 9:35:34 AM UTC+5:30, llanitedave wrote: >> On Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at 8:12:07 PM UTC-7, Rustom Mody wrote: >>> On Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 3:05:57 AM UTC+5:30, llanitedave wrote: >>>> On Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at 10:49:34 AM UTC-7, Rustom Mody wrote: >>>>> If only Galileo had had you as lawyer... >>>> >>>> Well, I'd asked Giordano Bruno for a positive recommendation. For some >>>> inexplicable reason, he declined. >>> >>> Maybe got too steamed-up pursuing high philosophy?? >> >> I think it had something to do with multiple inheritance. Anyway, back in those days using indentation rather than braces was definitely considered heresy. > > Along with braces, I hear the PECą is preparing other instruments of pleasure like the rack for you and me for persisting in profanities in these divine precincts. > ----------------- > ąPython Ecumenical Council > If the PEC were going to use any weapon of torture it would be the Comfy Chair, unless somebody borrowed the time machine and destroyed it before it could be put to use. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence