Indentation/whitespace

[thakadu]

>That's hardly Python's fault. That's a problem with lousy browsers,
>editors etc. which add word-wrapping or remove whitespace. >Complain to the
>browser developers.

While I have no doubt that there are lousy browsers out there, the
problem is not only with browsers, but also I agree with you its not
Python's fault. The issue is that the code I am pasting may have used a
DIFFERENT indentation scheme, so lets say I used four spaces and the
code I am pasting used two spaces, or worse yet, a tab, that is where
the problem arises. Now assuming that the browser and the copy and
paste buffers dont screw up the indentation, when I paste that code
into my editor that is where the problem arises. Sure if everyone stuck
to the recommended 4 spaces in the style guide it would help. But even
then in the context of your program you may be a further level of
indentation.
I dont know if trying to make the editor any cleverer would help
either. You could get it to simply replace the indentation in the newly
pasted code to the same as the surrounding code, (and there may even be
some Python modes that do that already) but that may not always be what
you wanted!