Python indentation deters newbies?

[Skip Montanaro]

    beliavsky> I wonder if there is a way to remove this initial
    beliavsky> barrier. Could an alternate source form be defined, so that
    beliavsky> there are matching if-endif and for-next constructs instead
    beliavsky> of significant indentation? 

Look at Tools/scripts/pindent.py in the standard distribution.  Run it as a
preprocessor over your code before running it.

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