On Dec 15, 11:10 am, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > > In general, I'm using indentation to show logical flow through code. > > That, of course, is what Python does. > Python does NOT use indentation to show logical flow. It uses it to show syntactical flow. The XML writer is the perfect example of a case where they are different. In most cases, syntactic flow is close enough to logical flow. There are a few cases where you can 'draw a picture' of the algorithm in code if you are whitespace insensitive.
I've not used the "with" keyword before, and it does seem to handle this troublesome case quite well. I learned python before it was around, and never really studied it hard enough. I'll have to investigate what other tricks can be done with it. I'm a big fan of the rule "make the 90% easy and the remaining 10% possible." Whitespace sensitivity makes the 90% easy, and just from the looks of it, the 'with' command and whitespace insensitive expressions give the remaining 10%. And I do like the automated support for "finally" clauses when using 'with' Thanks for the help, everyone! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
