On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 07:29:00PM +0100, Jonathan Schleifer wrote:
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> Darrin Chandler <dwchandler@stilyagin.com> wrote:
> 
> > I agree that copy/paste from the web would be challenging for
> > newcomers. Pastes from the web do horrible things to indenting. If
> > you aren't comfortable with Python it'd be a huge pain.
> 
> Well, enforced whitespaces are a double-edges sword: While enforcing
> newcomes to indent their code correctly and thus getting them used to
> the right style and avoiding bad behaviour, it is really a pain in the
> ass for testing. If you are just going to test something, you often
> have to reindent code. Luckily, vim can do that for you, but still,
> it's rather annoying that I have to reformat the code then.

You're doing testing wrong and the wrongness has nothing to do with
python. ;-)

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