New to Python - block grouping (spaces)

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 12:52 AM, Blake McBride <blake1024 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2.  Having been an employer, it is difficult to force programmers to use any particular editor or style.  Different editors handle tabs and spaces differently.  This is all a bloody nightmare with Python.
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> 3.  Languages that use braces (or the like) can be run through a program beautifier to correct the indentation.  You are just screwed in Python.  So, Python may be a cute language for you to use as an individual, but it is unwieldy in a real development environment.
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If you're prepared to run a beautifier on your employees' code, you
should have no problem requiring that they adopt a syntactically-legal
style. You're already throwing away any option of indentation not
matching the physical structure of the code, so why not simply have
the indentation define the physical structure?

ChrisA