[Python-Dev] Python -t

[Tim Peters]

[Tim]
>> There are two people on c.l.py who actually use Python and routinely
>> complain about whitespace... "the anti-whitespace camp" is
>> overwhelmingly composed of people who don't use the language and make
>> crap up as they go along.

[Greg Wilson]
> Which is how many people?

3,763.

> How are you counting the people who try Python, become frustrated,
> give up, and go elsewhere to satisfy their programming needs?

One at a time <wink>.

If they're invisible, they're not part of "the anti-whitespace camp".
What's your point?  All languages drive thousands of programmers away for
all sorts of reasons.  I give whitespace no special consideration in this;
e.g., Python has likely lost far more potential users in the past for lack
of an ANSI or ISO std (which is an official requirement for adoption in many
corporations, although the Internet is making such rules a bad joke -- more
power to it!).

Now that we've repeated every argument made on c.l.py 500 times in the last
year, how about let's stop.