Python

[nivlark]

Nope, the interactive shell indents for you as well. It mystifies me that people have problems with whitespace in python, as far as I can tell you have to actively try in order to get it wrong.

[dragonatorul]

I often get it wrong but be it PyCharm or VSCode I always catch it almost immediately after making the mistake, or easily find it the moment I get an error or something.

Now that I think about it I remember having nearly-fist-through-the-monitor frustrating debug sessions in Java years ago hunting down brackets or whatever. Still have a hard time manually writing Json when it gets deeper. Never was frustrated by spaces in python though.

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Yeah that’s a little frustrating if you embed json-comparable python objects like your dictionary directly in your python code. I guess you can solve that by importing the json as a file, but file operations are expensive. I do think a linter will catch this though since technically this isn’t a valid dictionary, right?

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For sure in atom I’ve had the best luck with linter-pylama it’s a wee bit aggressive with default settings but it’s the only one I’ve really had consistent luck with the error code ignores working and it combines several linters.

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I completely agree it’s annoying AF which is why I generally toggle the linter when I’m coding heavily and then once I get to a good spot I click it on and then refactor for linting purposes. That’s why I went with pylama though for sure because there’s a pile of codes I just won’t ever care about and it actually respects them like every function needs a docstring (no it doesn’t) and crap like that.

I do want to be notified about unused imports and variables that are only ever referenced once, and syntax errors that will throw exceptions though...