> What I or you prefer carries very little weight. I know layout-things > stir up a lot of bad feeling, but I honostly think those people should > grow up. When I cooperate in a project, I adapt my style to the one > used in the project. I may use a tool to change between styles for > things I work on an back when I register my piece or I may just write > in the project style, depending on what goes easiest.
They maybe should grow up - but that's true about a great deal of things in life, and still doesn't happen. And the extra effort is there - regardless of your degree of acceptance of it. I and lots of others prefer not having that extra effort. > Well you can't control the languages used either. Personnaly I find > difference in style a very minor issue compared to difference of > language or difference of development environment. If you so > much need the strict layout python imposes, I start to question > whether you are flexible enough for programming. I can easily reply on this that if you insist on more freedom in layout, I start to question if you are flexible enough for programming - if it's so unimportant, why don't you adapt? You certainly do, but it still bothers you. And I don't need it so much - I just take it and like it and don't bother. Your own statements make it clear that you care about layout as much as I do, and usually every reasonable programmer does. So we are back to the question _which_ layout to chose - and I (and lots of others, that certainly have made a measurable impact on the python language and stuff build on top of it, thus they can be seen as flexible programmers....) made the point that _one_ layout saves time and effort. And if it really is so important for you to have your own layout, create a prepocessor and do it - I want to do that myself one day I find the time, not for every-day tasks but for cases like python-embedded-in-html where the whitespace-dependency collides with the layouting-requirements of html. -- Regards, Diez B. Roggisch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
