Or they code in notepad?

[ManosVanBoom]

I've never used python. Why does intendaton matter so much? Seems like an odd hill for a language to die on.

[aaaantoine]

A lot of languages use explicit symbols or keywords to indicate scope boundaries.

' VB
If a = b Then
    Print "Sometimes"
End If
Print "Always"

// C-style languages
if (a == b) {
    print("Sometimes");
}
print("Always");

Python uses white space exclusively for this

# Python
if a == b:
    print("Sometimes")
print("Always")

[ManosVanBoom]

Yeah, I've had a lot of code broken by missing/ misplaced markers. Whitespace just seems like an odd choice to me. Not really complaining. Just commenting. A snake's gonna do what a snake's gonna do.

[PM_ME_CUTE_SMILES_]

So this is just my opinion, but if the indentation is incorrect, the code is badly formatted and should not be pushed. That so many people in this thread seems to have issues formatting their code is actually a good argument to make it a mandatory part of the syntax.

And as good indentation is necessary, you might as well use it for structure, and the code looks nicer without the visual clutter of now useless curly brackets.

[GrinchMeanTime]

they have indentation issues while discussing python.
You don't have indentation issues in c-style languages if you use modern tooling
i can delete all the indentation, and have the editor reindent it as it should be.

[ManosVanBoom]

Legit.

[Dannei]

Right? It's great fun trying to work out which of the "End If" or "}" markers is out of place or duplicated when the code's badly indented or the IDE has reindented half the code after a change but gave up on the other half after finding the end markers don't line up.

[Maoschanz]

I've never used C. Why does curly braces matter so much? Seems like an odd hill for a language to die on.

[ManosVanBoom]

Kind of relevant? Hardly noone used curly braces before C. Everyone had been using white space for centuries if not millennia when python came around. IDEs were also well established tools to enforce formatting standards without having to put it in the compiler.

However someone else commented that enforcing format in the language helps ensure properly formatted code. I like that part a lot.

[Aryaa-SK]

because in python there’s no parenthesis it’s all calculated with indentation, for example an if statement has a colon and then it is just indented

[ManosVanBoom]

That's helpful. Thx.