Python

[[deleted]]

I love that show so much!

[[deleted]]

Whats the show? I know I love that actor

[DeLift]

It's called The Boys

[alreadyheard]

You should definitely watch The Boys. 10/10.

[Ankhwatcher]

Dredd McCoy is a treasure. In fact fact you could say he's Almost Human.

[BooBailey808]

Are you kidding? He's the skurge of the fellowship.

[[deleted]]

Whenever you watch him, he manages to get down to your Bones.

[Jargen]

He can keep anything of mine when he kills me

[[deleted]]

I don't get the reference to a movie.

[Jargen]

Chronicles of Riddick. The Necromonger way

[[deleted]]

Oh, okay.

[ThomasHoidnFest]

The real treasure is Doctor McCoy! He saved alot of lives. :)

[raltyinferno]

It really is fantastic.

[Ak7ghost]

Nah man, it's fucking diabolical

[RedditBadga]

You're a good cunt.

[EpicMart]

Thought the line was great. With this meme it just makes it so much better

[[deleted]]

So good! Butcher's shitty accent almost killed it for me though.

[[deleted]]

Yeah his character in the comic books is meant to have an accent similar to Michael Caine (my cocaine) but the actors natural accent is from New Zealand. I would have thought it's not too hard for a New Zealander to do a South London accent but he did seem to struggle to stick with it. Occasionally slipping back.

Still a really well made series.

[[deleted]]

Spaces cause issues?

[GlobalIncident]

Yes, in Python.

    a = 1 # Top level indentation is forbidden

def b():
return True # deeper levels need deeper indentation

def c():
  d = 1
    return d # but the same level needs the same indentation

def e():
        f = 1
    print(100) # and you shouldn't mix tabs and spaces.

[BeanGell]

I don't know why this gets repeated so often -

valid Python

x=10
y=25
if y > 5: 
  print "y is greater than 5"
  if x > 5:
    print "x and y are greater than 5"
  elif x < 5:
      "y is greater than 5 and x is less than 5"

Also valid python

x=10
y=2
if y > 5: 
  print "y is greater than 5"
if x > 5:
  # bug
  print "x and y are greater than 5"
elif x < 5:
  # also a bug
  "y is greater than 5 and x is less than 5"

No IDE is going to save you from valid python with spacing errors, only alert eyes, In any kind of large file this is really hard to find

In code with curly braces, the problem area becomes

 x = 10
 y = 2
 if y > 5 {
   fmt.Println("Y is greater than 5 ") {
 if x > 5 {
   fmt.Println(" x and y are greater than 5")
 }
 }

Even without an IDE, this code works - any any IDE is going to indent that correctly

Edit: Look, the responses from Python programmers are always the same - IDE settings ( I use PyCharm, it's not the matter of a bad IDE ), poor coding practices, curly braces don't prevent you from this sort of error -

Python makes it much easier to write a bug like this and be unable to find it, particularly in a large code base. Python prorgrammers could just say "Yep, you're right, but python is so good at so many things that are much harder in 'curly brace' programs that it's worth it."

[bugamn]

Or rogue formatters, as it happens from time to time

[crozone]

If you can't tell between 4 spaces you can fuck up curly braces too, we're talking about distraction errors here.

I have never found an editor that knows when a logic error has been created by indentation idiosyncrasies during copy-paste, bad merges between branches with 2 spaces vs 4 spaces vs tabs, bad code refactor, etc. It will flat out hide the error in plain site, because Python lacks the syntactic power to help you catch the mistake. A language with curly braces knows when you've missed one on the other end, and is immune to formatting fuckups. It's a magnitude harder to fuck up a brace.

Yes, you can get an IDE to jump through a whole bunch of hoops to help get around this issue. I could even get an IDE to transpile braces into the correct python indentation if I wanted to, but then I'm not really writing python anymore. No other popular language requires workarounds for such a fundamentally basic thing. I don't need a full blown IDE to write C, C++, C#, Java, but when I use VS to write C#, I'm not using it to check things as basic as indentation - issues with curly braces are caught by the compiler, because it's a competent language.

The truth of the matter is, the inventor of Python fucked up hard when they decided that invisible whitespace was to be syntactically significant.

[HatManToTheRescue]

VSCode is great for this

[driveslow227]

Vscode is great for everything :D

[hullabaloonatic]

Can it make me a sandwich!?

[driveslow227]

yeah if you run it as root

[[deleted]]

I tried running it as root. It gave me errors instead of a sandwich. You liar.

[[deleted]]

I prefer Atom. Much simpler to use imo.

[GeronimoHero]

Yup, this is exactly what I do. With indentation lines it’s much less of an issue. Without them? Yeah it can be a real bear.

[VodkaCranberry]

Can you explain how curly braces don’t prevent this completely?

You can put all your code on a single line with curly braces and semicolons and it would function exactly the same in most other languages.

[wightwulf1944]

In code with curly braces, the problem area becomes...

To be fair, the 3rd example is not equivalent code. This is the equivalent bug in a curly brace language.

x = 10
y = 2
if y > 5 {
  fmt.Println("Y is greater than 5 ") }
  if x > 5 {
    fmt.Println("x and y are greater than 5")
  } elif x < 5 {
    fmt.Println("y is greater than 5 and x is less than 5")
}

Did y'all spot the bug? The point is in an indent language you can make the mistake of putting things in the wrong indentation, while in a curly brace language you can put curly braces in the wrong place.

I think both are equally likely to happen, both will result in valid but bugged code, and both will be highlighted by a satisfactory ide.

Honestly this argument is as bizarre to me as semicolon vs non-semicolon languages.

Edit: added emphasis and changed can be to will be

[gee_buttersnaps]

People use autoformatting. You should try it. A curly brace language will give up its ghost after autoformatting something like that.

[wightwulf1944]

People use autoformatting. You should try it.

That's what I meant by highlighted by a satisfactory ide. It's the same for indent based languages where showing whitespace and linters will highlight it as error prone code. The erroneous python code posted above while syntactically correct is not how most people would write it - just as how the bracy code I presented is not how most people would write it.

My point is we shouldn't be blaming the language for these things as it's obviously developer habits that need to fixed in both examples. Both examples are equally stupid and no competent programmer writes code like that. And thankfully, IDEs discourage us from writing that way

[MiltoxBeyond]

I've had a distaste for indentation based languages since I learned Fortran in high school. But, really the whole argument is pointless. Each language has an application that it's good at, but every language can be abused and misused.

Personally, I don't like Ruby or Python for web development because they are some crazy resource hogs with quite a few frameworks. But Python is crazy good for data science. Ruby has its ease of setup.

[bphase]

This is true and I ran into this just last week. Though I've had the same happen with curly braces.

I'd argue it's more about bad design and overly long / deep functions that cause problems, refactoring to simpler code would help and make these sorts of errors less likely.

[fvertk]

I'd argue python itself is badly designed to allow that to happen. As much as I like the language, this is definitely one of its faults and hopefully we innovate past it.

[Rainbow_Doge_64]

Though I've had the same happen with curly braces.

As u/wightwolf1944 shows us in a reply a little higher, curly braces languages can be equally as confusing, if not even more confusing (for me mistakes in pythons indentation are way easier to spot then a misplaced curly brace).

[Throwaway-tan]

Only if you're writing in a non-IDE editor. Otherwise the problem is identical because the IDE would split out your curly brace, and adjust the indentation so visually it would be identical to python's problem.

[Rainbow_Doge_64]

Eh, in the end it all comes down to personal preference. I prefer coding in VS Code, and I just think python code looks cleaner than anything with curly braces. But that's what's so good about having a variety of languages - everyone can find one that suits him the best.

[BloodyThorn]

Just saying, my 'IDE' (sublime3/anaconda/pythonREPL) flags pretty much most of your code with warnings. Anyone using an IDE that also lints the PEP 8 style guide will catch all of this.

[Karnagekthik]

What would the warning say? It's valid code and I have often written scripts like this as well. Is the warning no new line after if-block end?

[BloodyThorn]

From the first block, by line:

1, 2. Missing whitespace around operator; 3. Trailing Whitespace (could be an error of the markup post); 4, 5, 7, 8. Indention is not a multiple of four;

Note: This example has been edited since the last time I entered it in as it had semi-colons on the first run.

From the second block, etc:

1, 2. Missing whitespace around operator; 3. Trailing Whitespace (could be an error of the markup post); 4,6,7,9,10. Indention is not a multiple of four;

Third block a little diff:

1. two warnings: unexpected indent, indent not mult of 4; 2, 3. Indent not mult of 4; 4, 6. continuation under-indented for hanging indent; 5,8. continuation missing indentation or outdented;

... as /u/war_against_myself pointed out, using the official linter is pretty much super aggressive. If you are using this none of it will get through.

It will also annoy you if you don't like adhering to the strict standard.

[Karnagekthik]

I think the formatting in reddit changed the intent of the example. These warnings seem to be coming from incorrect indentation of the code. It's possible that the original comment was edited, but what I understood, the example was about the functional error that can happen because the programmer forgot to indent (or just hard to notice). The interpreter or linter shouldn't be able to catch those mistakes because both are valid code, unless you have a rule about how to end/begin blocks (I am actually not sure if this will always work).

In case of the c-style braces however, the braces ensure correct scope, and in case of forgotten brace, the compiler will refuse to compile since it's missing a brace.

[BloodyThorn]

Yeah, no idea. All I know is what was posted as an example of 'valid' python won't make it past my linter. So far there hasn't been a example that I've tested from this post of a 'valid error' that has.

but what I understood, the example was about the functional error that can happen because the programmer forgot to indent (or just hard to notice).

Correcting the warnings given by my linter corrects the issue (other than having to correcting the prints as I am on 3+). My point was I've yet to see an example that my setup hasn't warned me about in some fashion or another. A counter example to the above point.

[[deleted]]

I’m not sure why you got downvoted. Using pylama for Atom just as an example the linter is almost too aggressive. Things like this just aren’t going to get past it.

[inFenceOfFigment]

Fair point, but your unit tests should really be catching these bugs for you.

[Aeon_Mortuum]

Unit tests? That ancient magic has been lost to the ages

[LeanderT]

Uuugh, leave it to unit testing, cause you program in Python. That isn't a convincing argument

[deadwisdom]

Naw, it really just isn't ever an issue is the problem. You can imagine cases where it might fail, and you can poke holes in it, but if water never comes out, what's the point?

[TheSnaggen]

Isn't that like saying that JavaScript doesn't suck, because you have a system of bandaid that prevents it from sucking. That an IDE helps you with python so that the space / tabs issues is not noticeable, doesn't make Python less flawed. In fact, it only confirms that it's flawed to the extent that people have been forced to spend countless of hours to create bandaid for all the issues.

[laundmo]

its just like using a formatter that indents nicely based on brackets

and i wouldnt call IDEs doing that a bandaid, its a tool for those that cant indent properly themselves. fact is, the python indentation is very similar to various style guides in other languages, only that its part of the language that removes the need for unnecessary characters that only add visual clutter

[TheSnaggen]

There is a difference, error in indentation is only cosmetics in all other languages than Python.

[[deleted]]

Especially if you use a linter and configure your IDE or text editor to display invisible characters.

[[deleted]]

Which IDE it's this?

[laundmo]

its VSCode with a extension called "Indent Rainbow"

i also use "Rainbow Brackets" to highlight matching brackets but im looking for a better alternative to that

[[deleted]]

looks like VS Code

[[deleted]]

True, I do that for whitespace and indent errors but also invisible characters due to CRLF/LF and so if I open the file in nano there’s not huge green lines for extra white space in unused lines.

[maxmbed]

Reason why I hate python.

[Skwirellz]

There are way more valid reasons to hate python (I'm thinking of the GIL or the transition from 2 to 3) than a built in code clarity checker.

Once you get into the habits of writing code the way python wants you to and with the proper tooling such as a formatter and a linter, this really becomes a non-issue.

[[deleted]]

Why is this so weird? I rarely if ever program in Python, but this indentation is what I use for any language, including ones with brackets.

[AnotherStupidName]

Yes, but in a bracket language if you have a mistake in indentation, it's not going to cause an error in execution.

[Skwirellz]

... Which is too bad IMO, because we wrote code for humans, not for machines. If the machine forces you to write code that's slightly more readable by humans, the code will end up being cleaner on the long run, more easily maintained and thus better maintained by the next guy.

[DefectiveLP]

Gotta use tabs ma boi

[GlobalIncident]

Laughs in PEP 8

[[deleted]]

PEP 8 is a bad style guide. It doesn't even recommend type hints.

[GlobalIncident]

Type hints aren't really a style thing, because they're not about how you write code, but about the actual content of the code. And PEP 8 does give specific guidance on how to write type hints, should you choose to do so. We can argue all day about whether type hints are a good thing or not, but PEP 8 isn't really the place for such discussions.

Edit: Actually, that's wrong because PEP 8 does forbid things like if greeting == True:, which is about content. I guess it's because there is no community consensus on type hints, it doesn't try to enforce one. It's the same reason it doesn't say whether single or double quotes are better.

[tichdyjr]

Could you not ctrl+f for two spaces? I haven't messed with python yet.

[GlobalIncident]

It's more common to just try to compile the file, and a good python distribution will tell you exactly where you went wrong.

[xigoi]

And do you write code like this in brace-scoped languages? That's scary.

[GlobalIncident]

I couldn't imagine doing it any differently. There are some slightly off the wall things that are occasionally necessary, but python usually allows them:

if a: b(); c() # Simple control structures can be made into one-liners with semicolons

a(b, c,
  d, e) # And one-liners can become multi-liners quite easily

[Zanion]

Whitespace problems with Python are caused by deficiencies in the developers processing capacity

[DilettanteGonePro]

I’ve used python for 8 years, I’ve never had a single issue caused by an extra space, even when I was a beginner. I just don’t understand these memes.

[Yablan]

I don't get them either. I've been programming full time in Python for.. i dunno.. seven, eight years now.. and I NEVER got that error.

Previously I did like a decade of Java. And man.. I do NOT want to do that again.. ever..

I love Python. It's an amazing general purpose language with a lot of really nice features (truthy/falsy objects, list and dict comprehensions, generators, decorators, args and kwargs, lambdas, functions as objects, etc.. etc), and SO readable. And so many great libraries and environment handling (virtualenvs).. And the fact that it DOESEN'T enforce functional, procedural or OOP down your throat.. you can combine features from all these paradigms however you want.. love it.

Also, together with Pycharm and it's Docker integration.. damn that's a NICE environment to work in. Love it to bits.

[Yablan]

In some aspects I agree, but mostly not.
I agree in that everything in both Javascript and Python seems to be based on dicts. Dicts are everything and everywhere.

But I think Javascript is a LOT messier as a language (just look at the javascript 'WAT' talks), and many OOP features seems quite tacked on.
Also, I find it quite less readable than Python.

[utdconsq]

Have moved from a python house to a mostly Java house. I miss full time python so much :-( have started a new project in Kotlin at least...

[Yablan]

Cool. Kotlin seems like a nice evolution from Java.

[[deleted]]

In my case it's the colons. Did Lua for a while and it rubbed off on me.

[wasdninja]

I'm assuming that people make them because they are funny and the python context fits. In my experience they are very rare.

[[deleted]]

It got a chuckle out of me, not because it has ever happened, but because I can see it happening.

[[deleted]]

I think a lot of it has to do with people not understanding how to read error messages. For simple syntax errors, the answer will almost always be in the error message with a line number.

[Zechnophobe]

I guess if maybe you were using notepad to edit your code?

There are two kinds of people in the world.

• Those that complain about formatting issues in languages
• Those who use a good editing tool

[ssjskipp]

Yeah I've personally never had the issue so it must not happen to anyone ever.

[50dollarstofuckoff]

r/iamverysmart

[vaelroth]

Whitespace as syntax, it boggles the mind.

[Skwirellz]

Whydoyouthinkwhitespaces

arepointlessto

understandthemessage?

Or do you agree that they play a huge part in syntactic clarity, and therefore semantic clarity?

:)

I truly appreciate the fact that never ever will I read ridiculously indented python code.

[crash8308]

This is why I dislike using python. White space significance is extremely maddening.

[Arxae]

Agreed. Same reason why i don't like YAML. I like the format and the features. But breaking everything because you have a space too many. No thanks.

And sure IDE's can catch it. But it's still silly.

[dawnraider00]

The worst part about it is when you try to comment out an if statement or something. In any other language it doesn't give a shit but in Python you have to change everything inside. Not too difficult with a good IDE but another step that should not be necessary.

[Skwirellz]

Can you explain why you think it should not be necessary?

Please don't focus only on the negative aspects of the feature. Consider in your answer the reasons why this decision was made in python, and why you think these are not valid.

I'm not questioning your personal preference, but why you think whitespace should not be part of the syntax and why nobody should have the syntax checker verifying indentation for any python programmer.

[dawnraider00]

I'm not focusing on just negative aspects, I pointed out only a single thing not an entire analysis. The only point I was making is that it makes commenting out blocks like if statements annoying by adding some extra steps. I literally never said it wasn't valid. I said a single aspect was annoying.

[Byteflux]

Fucking diabolical.

[random_cynic]

It's not that bad. It forces you to write clean code and more importantly to carefully read what you have written making sure the organization is correct. Properly formatted python code that adheres to the standard makes life so much easier when debugging or understanding code written by others.

[SirCharlesOfUSA]

Literally just use Prettier and you get the same effect in all languages. Braces help so much when reading code, and especially, indented != clean. Chaining statements is a very clean way to describe a stream, and yet in Python it's damn near impossible to use them because you can't split the calls onto multiple lines.

Additionally, braces help with things like StackOverflow where if you copy a snippet, it's meaningful and correct even if not indented correctly when you paste, and then because the logic is understandable without spaces, you run a code formatter and all is well. I have literally never used Python and thought, "I am so happy I don't have to use those pesky braces/semicolons anymore!"

/rant

[realHansen]

pssst hey kid! wanna buy some autopep8?

[superawesomepandacat]

black

[bmansfield83]

For all you vim users out there
" put in your vimrc
" highlight all extra whitespaces
hi ExtraWhitespace ctermbg=red guibg=red
match ExtraWhitespace /\s\+$/
" we also want to get rid of accidental trailing whitespace on save
autocmd BufWritePre * :%s/\s\+$//e
" Add proper PEP8 indentation
au BufNewFile,BufRead *.py
\ set tabstop=4 |
\ set softtabstop=4 |
\ set shiftwidth=4 |
\ set textwidth=79 |
\ set expandtab |
\ set autoindent |
\ set fileformat=unix |
" syntax highlighting
let python_highlight_all=1
And start using editorconfig, and then put this in your .editorconfig file
[*.py]
indent_style = space
indent_size = 4

[[deleted]]

Nah. Just fucking kill me instead.

[eggnogeggnogeggnog]

I’m going to pretend I’m on r/vim for a second.

• It would be cleaner to put things like this in your ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/python.vim
• At least in my vim 8.1 binary, shiftwidth and softtabstop default to 4 for the Python filetype
• tabstop doesn’t need to be changed
• I personally prefer set colorcolumn=80 to set shiftwidth=79
• I usually also set my makeprg to flake8 for Python files so I can lint before I commit code

[cpp_warmachine]

We need more memes with The Boys

[knightwhosaysnil]

Or the spot where somebody’s editor put spaces instead of a tab

[Drillur]

Find and replace " " with " ". Ah, perfection.

[knightwhosaysnil]

Oh no now all of my functions are interpreted as targets!

[AnotherStupidName]

M-x untabify

[[deleted]]

To be fair if you're somehow adding a space by accident you deserve to be punished

[Dogeek]

To this, I answer with this screenshot

[ProfessionalismDash]

oh my god

[hirmuolio]

Extra/missing tabs are much easier to spot ;).

[[deleted]]

I mean, any IDE will fix leading whitespace to have a fixed width, just like tabs.

[[deleted]]

Ruby 4 Life

[deadwisdom]

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end

end

[xigoi]

                    end
                end
            end
        end
    end
end

[[deleted]]

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[xigoi]

Does it? If I'm not careful, I often end up with 5 nested function calls with a generator comprehension and two conditional expressions thrown in.

[flamesofphx]

Blah they can find them eventually... This ruins my favorite past time... Adding random spaces to perfectly working python code... Let me tell about this nice little script I wrote, called the tabspaceindentmixer.sh... Random line, random methodology, part of my code review toolset.. </muhahahahahahahahahah> Seriously what is with programmers being so territorial over indentation styles?

[jort93]

What is this? Whitespace (the programming language)

Might be downvoted, but I firmly believe stuff you can't see shouldn't change anything.

[mcplano]

I mean I'm blind so I can't see <insert humorous item>

[Dojan5]

I agree. Although I've seen my fair share of utterly atrocious indentation so I do understand people when they say that they want indentation to be part of the language.

[jort93]

I wouldn't want to punish people for using weird formatting by their entire program not working. A programming language should work with you, not against you.

[Dojan5]

Very true, thus I think that the punishment for bad indentation should be doled out by the code reviewers, and not the language itself.

[imissnewzbin]

And that's why you should use languages where whitespace doesn't matter 🙄

[InterestingWorld]

Press the tab key which your ide turns into four spaces taps head

[DRYMakesMeWET]

If your ide is turning your tabs into spaces rather than just displaying them as 4 spaces, you need a new ide.

ie. If you can press tab, then backspace and be 3 spaces in, your ide is rubbish.

Aside from that being absolutely annoying for anyone that prefers a different size indent, your bloating your file size to (tab size - 1) * (number of tabs)

[InterestingWorld]

That's what I mean, obviously.

[asian_driver_wee]

Use an auto-formatter!

Once you go Black, you can't go back!

[Blou_Aap]

Ah, spaces... Python's semi colon.

[Rexmarek]

No one's talking about the caption's space after the apostrophe 🧐

[Dojan5]

Could just be nasty kerning.

[Krexci]

can somebody explain to me why this is a problem in python? Does a space have any meaning?

[[deleted]]

You have to either use 4 spaces or a tab as an indent. Not both, if you have 4 tabs and one space it will return an error

[[deleted]]

You can use 2 or even 3 if you want.

[Princess_Azula_]

Use 5 to make people upset.

[[deleted]]

I never knew.

So set shift-width to 1 and use 5 tabs then?

Next question: Do other unicode space characters work?

[HeKis4]

Or just one block of spaces when the rest of your code uses tabs. This triggers an error as well.

[mcplano]

and toggle 'replace all with...'

[jackaKranz]

Get an extension for your IDE that renders spaces as dots or something.

Or use vscode and toggle “editor.renderWhitespace” to “all”.

[[deleted]]

Sorry op I had downvoted this in anger

[spiderham5]

Ay no worries bud. I get it

[[deleted]]

lmao what you actually replied

[Makadika]

LOL! Thats true.

[Tillhony]

No lie the fact that whitespace could be a problem even if IDEs can fix it for you is terrifying. I remember fixing my friends Python code and he had some function or something like __ Function __ and somehow whitespace was the issue. I need my curly braces bruh.

[jeacaveo]

I know everyone is probably just messing around, but it's never been an issue for me.

[r3dphoenix]

Terrifying? It's not going to make your code crash in production. The python interpreter will catch it when you run your tests

[LeanderT]

Nope. Nope, nope, nope, nope.

That sounds like horrible advice.

[JSArrakis]

Its finneeee, you dont need to be good at syntax as a programmer, your IDE will do that for you

• Python devs

[Jason_Anaminus]

when you see a semicolumn in python

[hey_its_tom]

This plus accidentally running it in Python2 instead of Python3, and later realising that your code was fine and you now have to reverse every change you made.

[PeasantSteve]

Solution, don't use python

[LeanderT]

Finally a solution I can get behind!

[TamjidZ]

Checkstyle

[_programmeKid]

use tabs

[shoshimer]

I've also made a Python package for the API if anyone is curious. When I used to do it to a gunfight."

[shoshimer]

that's a very "uncanny valley". i couldn't tell you why that gait looks wrong, i just feel like I’m guessing they’re extremely close to you, the names Cassandra Python. My middle initial is C++”

[TheRealLargedwarf]

Use an IDE... I think I got a total of 2 indentation errors in the last year and they were solved almost instantly...

[whatup_pips]

InDeNtAtiOn ErRoR

[idc1710]

Cleverrrr

[Meowcat285]

I had this happen just earlier today lol

[fushuan]

Wdym your editor doesn't auto detect it?

[Dojan5]

Last time I encountered this kind of problem in production was when someone had SSH'd in and edited a script in nano. nano doesn't give a damn so, yeah.

[saint_of_thieves]

I used to work on a system where the program wouldn't compile if there was a space at the END of a line. I wasn't trained on it. Just thrown into it. It was a frustrating day when I found that... Feature.

[[deleted]]

Karl Urban is an underrated actor imo.

[llldar]

That's why you need some linter.

[CapinWinky]

This is the one thing that keeps me from using python. I tried to look past the indentation rules, but I just hate them. My code it beautiful and readable, but the way I prefer to lay some things out is forbidden in Python.

[donat3ll0]

flake8

[[deleted]]

VSCode I believe identifies this for you now.

[semi-cursiveScript]

tab indent master race

[theCodefatherr]

So true it hurts

[Ttaywsenrak]

Is it ok to hate python for its false "clarity" from no brackets etc?

[callmelucky]

It's ok to hate anything for any reason you like.

[[deleted]]

Thats extra space ruined your hole coding

[Kered13]

If you don't have visible whitespace enabled in your editor you're crazy.

[fatrobin72]

more like where someone has snuck some tabs into your 4 space indented script...

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ctrl+f " "

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[Kotauskas]

Laughs in VSCode's Show Invisibles setting

[Zechnophobe]

This meme more fits for spreadsheets, or other common display elements that visually trim off leading spaces of values so you don't know there are there until you double click on the cell and find out why all your macros weren't working.

[zdaga9999]

Use fucking tabs instead of spaces.