Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> >   I'm not concerned about typos. I'm concerned about whitespaces being lost
> > in transfer 

> Well, don't do that. :-) Treat python source code as something other than 
> prose, and you won't have that problem.

  Too bad that online forums and blogs won't.

> Really, if you're not using unicode, you're already behind the ball. So if 
> your transfer mechanism can't handle whitespace, you shouldn't be using it 
> to ship code around.

  Tell that to all the forum and blog software out there.

> >   Because when your editor can autoindent your code, it makes programming
> > enormously easier (similarly to how syntax highlighting does).

> Python editors auto-indent code. I'm not sure what you mean. An indent 
> always follows a line ending with a colon, and the dedent is no harder than 
> your closing brace in C.

  Autoindentation is impossible for a program to do because it cannot know
where the block should end, as there is no keyword/character ending the block.

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                                                          - Warp

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