[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: anybody doing GUI development with Python

[Deirdre Saoirse Moen]

>At 10:05 -0700 6/16/01, Daniel Lord wrote:
>>One syntax flaw is the use of whitespace to designate block structure. It
>>not only creates problems between editors on the same platform with tab
>>and space conversion/substituion issues, but because of the different
>>line-ending schemes on different platforms, it hampers portability of the
>>source. It has been a cross-platform thorn in my side with Python. what
>>was so wrong with braces anyway?

After using Python, every other language looks like it has line noise. ;)

(no, not just perl)

>The nice clean indentation-is-significant syntax is one of the reasons I'm
>using Python.  Other people do feel differently...should braces ever become
>the required way to do things in Python, I'll stop short of moving to that
>version.

I don't feel THAT strongly, but I like the lean elegance of Python syntax.

>One does need to tame one's editors, but that's not terribly hard (for me).
>
>I use Python in both Mac (BBEdit, mostly) and Unix/Linux (Emacs,
>exclusively), but seldom transport scripts back and forth.

BBEdit handily converts line endings. Now that there's a free version 
for MacOS X, that's what I'm using. (I had been using TextEdit).
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