Cheap Therapy

Ouch. I’m really quite fond of Python as a language, but a) every time I swap editors I wind up with differently indented code (even if it’s only visual, and doesn’t annoy the interpreter, it’s disconcerting to me). Yes, I could probably fix that (somewhere between vi on Windows and BBEdit on the Mac

More annoyingly, I got bitten by the last line of an if statement being considered by Python to be outdented by one level, and as such not included in the if statement. A classic error in C/C++ if you don’t use block delimiters with a single line statement.

Maybe it’s time to look at Ruby. Or add a pre-processor with block delimiters to Python

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