achates wrote:
> You haven't explained why you think there's a problem with having a > character which, in an unambiguous and non-implementation-specific way, > means 'one level of indentation'. In Python, of all languages, it makes > sense to have such a character because 'one level of indentation' is a > syntactical token processed by the interpreter. > Because it doesn't mean 'one level of indentation', it means 'move to next tabstop' and a tabstop isn't necessarily the same as a level of indentation. In particular a common convention is to have indentations at 4 spaces and tabs expanding to 8 spaces. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
