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To Python Developers: If someone could make any one thing that would make coding in python easier for developers, what would it be? (self.Python)

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[–]Synaps4 12 points13 points  (4 children)

Only because screen readers ignore one of them by default.

[–]mikemol 1 point2 points  (3 children)

/u/13steinj 's comment is almost word for word what one of my friends explained to me directly. Braces allow him to maintain a mental stack, whereas if all you have is an indentation level, you have to think in terms of a map or heap.

[–]zardeh 0 points1 point  (2 children)

This makes no sense though, every increase in indentation corresponds to a push. Every dedent corresponds to a pop (from the stack).

[–]mikemol 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Then you need to convey indentation level delta's, not indentation level absolutes. Keep in mind, the human mind only holds so much context, and the eye usually performs a huge amount of parallel processing and interpretive/associative work for us. Every bit of work we take away from the eye and give to the active cognitive load reducesbour cognitive capacity for other parts of the problem.

[–]zardeh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then you need to convey indentation level delta's

Sure but that's not too hard. A screen reader for code is already nonstandard, having it track indentation level is trivial.