I don't like Python. Does that make me a bad person?

Re:I don't like Python. Does that make me a bad person? by jsankey on Saturday June 26, 2010 @09:02AM (#1463617)

I indent my Perl code. Not everyone does, however. It's a trivial task to reformat it in an editor.

But in Python, you don't even have to worry about other people not indenting their code!

I guess the only complaint I might have is why bother thinking about indentation, ever? Throw in a couple of {} and now the tools can provide additional help.

When you edit Python, the tools can already help as much. The start of a block is obvious (def, if, for, etc), so tools indent for you. To dedent, just hit the right key (e.g. a backspace on an empty line in emacs) -- no harder than hitting the brace key.

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Re:I don't like Python. Does that make me a bad person? by dmn001 on Saturday June 26, 2010 @11:54AM (#1463821)

You do have to worry as their Python code produces errors if they do not indent it properly!

I don't like Python either and prefer Perl. (In Python I did not like indentations, dicts, tuples, lists, and the IDLE gui.)

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