Python indentation deters newbies?

[Christopher T King]

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Peter Hansen wrote:

> What I doubt is that many of those people are out there rejecting Python
> just because it doesn't let them write god-awful unreadable code with
> artistic or random indentation.

Imagining ee cummings coding Python:

import
          sys

def main  ( )
:
    myfile
=   open

( s y s . a r g v [ 1 ] )

myfile
.
write('
   hello

world           ')myfile.



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()main()