Re: New to Python - block grouping (spaces)yhoni

2015-04-16 Thread alister
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 16:09:13 +0200, Antoon Pardon wrote: > On 04/16/2015 03:18 PM, alister wrote: > > >>> As is argueing against a real position instead of making something up. >>> Nobody is argueing for arbitrary indentation. >> May I suggest that you give it a try for a month, perhaps re-writi

Re: New to Python - block grouping (spaces)yhoni

2015-04-16 Thread alister
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 14:44:15 +0100, BartC wrote: > On 16/04/2015 14:18, alister wrote: >> On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 13:07:22 +0200, Antoon Pardon wrote: > >>> Nobody is argueing for arbitrary indentation. >> >> May I suggest that you give it a try for a month, perhaps re-writing a >> small program you

Re: New to Python - block grouping (spaces)yhoni

2015-04-16 Thread Mark Lawrence
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.

Re: New to Python - block grouping (spaces)yhoni

2015-04-16 Thread Antoon Pardon
On 04/16/2015 03:18 PM, alister wrote: > >> As is argueing against a real position instead of making something up. >> Nobody is argueing for arbitrary indentation. > May I suggest that you give it a try for a month, perhaps re-writing a > small program you already have in a pythonic style (don't

Re: New to Python - block grouping (spaces)yhoni

2015-04-16 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 11:18 PM, alister wrote: > be warned you may find it creates (or increases ) an extreme dislike for > C & other languages that require braces & semicolons, it did for me > (especially the semi-colon!) I'd just like to add to this that the lack of semicolon in Python works

Re: New to Python - block grouping (spaces)yhoni

2015-04-16 Thread BartC
On 16/04/2015 14:18, alister wrote: On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 13:07:22 +0200, Antoon Pardon wrote: Nobody is argueing for arbitrary indentation. May I suggest that you give it a try for a month, perhaps re-writing a small program you already have in a pythonic style (don't simply write c in python

Re: New to Python - block grouping (spaces)yhoni

2015-04-16 Thread alister
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 13:07:22 +0200, Antoon Pardon wrote: > On 04/16/2015 12:43 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> On Thursday 16 April 2015 20:09, Antoon Pardon wrote: >> >>> I beg to differ. The most common occurence is a loop with a break >>> condition in the middle I would prefer such a loop to be w