New to Python - block grouping (spaces)

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Apr 16 08:17:33 EDT 2015


On 16/04/2015 05:07, Blake McBride wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am new to Python.  I am sorry for beating what is probably a dead horse but I checked the net and couldn't find the answer to my question.
>
> I like a lot of what I've seen in Python, however, after 35 years and probably a dozen languages under my belt, I very strongly disagree with the notion of using white space to delimit blocks.  Not wanting to beat what I believe is probably a dead horse, I have one question.
>
> Is there a utility that will allow me to write Python-like code that includes some block delimiter that I can see, that converts the code into runnable Python code?  If so, where can I find it?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Blake McBride
>

You're not beating a dead horse, it was reduced to a skeleton years ago. 
  I'd either get used to the use of whitespace or find another language.

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Mark Lawrence




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