do people really complain about significant whitespace?

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    >> of the driving principles behind Python is that, because code will be
    >> read more often than written, readability is more important.

    Stephen> In which case, for long functions with multiple levels of
    Stephen> indentation Python fails compared to languages that use braces
    Stephen> or END or end; etc.

No.  In that case Python makes it more readily apparent that your code is
too complex.  With C, Java, C++, Perl or FORTRAN you just smush everything
over to the left and pretend it's not. ;-)

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