Thoughts from a newbie

[Terry Reedy]

"Steve" <stevesusenet at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:6f8cb8c9.0212131330.594d9a08 at posting.google.com...
> I decided to learn Python after comments from people I respect
highly
> recommended it.
...
> Since indentation is used by most conscientous coders anyway, some
use
> of punctuation markings becomes superfluous and even a kind of
visual
> interferance/flak.

This was exactly my reaction -- 6 or 7 years ago.  Welcome

> In fact, I don't think python takes the idea of enforced
> neatness/readability far enough :).

Perhaps a bit of newbie overenthusiasm?

> There are two coding habits that I see often that makes code harder
to
> understand:
>
> 1. excessive nesting

What arbitrary cutoff would you enforce? ;<)

> 2. lines longer then 80 chars

With proportional fonts, 80 chars is pretty arbitrary.

Terry J. Reedy