Indentation/whitespace

[James Tanis]

On 24 Dec 2005 18:36:32 -0800, Joe <jkrahn at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> My original post was based on reading on Pythons developer list that it
> was seriously considering some alternate grouping scheme, just because
> "so many people keep asking". But, it seems that never happened.
>
> As for me, I'm not suggesting that braces are better than indentation.
> In fact, requiring indentation is a good idea, and I agree that braces
> can be quite ugly. It is the lack of visible block closing when there's
> more than one level that I dislike.
>
> That would probably not be so bad if, like the recent post, you used an
> editor that showed faint vertical lines. In fact, that's a very good
> idea, since you really need a Python-aware editor anyhow.
>

You can always just document the end of the block with a comment, such as
# end: if usr.password == password
or something less elaborate :P.
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