[Tutor] Is there python editor or plugin for a python editor for curly brackets around code blocks?

[Chad Crabtree]

Oh, I forgot there's another way to add braces

if it_is_way_cool: #{
  print 'coolness'
#}

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:06 PM, xbmuncher <xboxmuncher at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'll check out your links. But in response to some of the things said:
> I'm a fan of indentation, a replacement of indentation with curly braces is
> not what I was aiming for. If I could have it my way, I'd have indentation
> and curly braces. I don't want to change official python syntax either.. I
> just want to be able to easily do it myself.
>
> The big problem I had that I didn't explain well enough when I said
> "visually" is that it is visually hard to tell when code blocks end when
> other code blocks and statements begin immediately after them. With curly
> braces you can easily visualize when looking at a lot of code where the code
> block ends. The best thing you can do in python currently is to put an empty
> line in between the last line of a code block and the following code, so you
> can better visualize the end of the code block.
>
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 4:23 AM, Chris Fuller
> <cfuller084 at thinkingplanet.net> wrote:
>>
>> Some clarifications w.r.t. indentation and Python:
>> http://www.secnetix.de/olli/Python/block_indentation.hawk
>>
>> It's just a joke, really:
>> http://timhatch.com/projects/pybraces/
>>
>> Turnabout is fair play!
>> http://blog.micropledge.com/2007/09/nobraces/
>>
>> Also, pindent.py in the Tools/scripts directory of your Python
>> distribution
>> will produce correctly indented scripts if the blocks are designated with
>> a "#end" line.
>>
>>
>> But seriously, you don't want to go creating a separate class of source
>> file.
>> It'll be harder for you and the other programmers to context switch when
>> working with code that uses the standard style, will confuse others who
>> won't
>> know what to do with your code, adds overhead to the compiling, will break
>> when somebody tries to run it under the standard environment, could
>> clutter
>> up your development directories, depending on the implementation, etc.
>>
>> Here's a thread from 1999 on the Python mailing list that discusses the
>> issue:
>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/1999-June/004450.html
>>
>> There's another script towards the end that might even do what you want,
>> but
>> you might want to read what they have to say first :)
>>
>> Cheers
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