Lately, python critics have been winning on the fact that, python's indentation is an inconvinience rather than comfort.
They butress their point with the fact that, python's indentation may not be the most convinient for web programmers, and shell/console addicts as it does not support large scale free form format of webpage markup languages like html, wml and their likes; and also isnt very convinient for console(noob) workers as they dont have the luxury of a markup editor!
A strong point(which i also find disturbing) is the fact that python codebases are usually larger, though easy to debug, it can tend to be a problem finding the bug in the first place in the huge codebase; voluminous codes also mostly mean slower algorithms(from experience).
These among many points being said, i've been wondering....is python's indentation really a cool thing or overrated?? Would you have prefered braces to indentation??
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And yea, their is a new python compiler...but this one supports braces!!
http://pythonb.org

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In my opinion, the indentation is part of what makes python what it is.

Try maintaining badly formatted legacy code in Java and you'll appreciate python's indentation.

AZeD1:
In my opinion, the indentation is part of what makes python what it is.

Try maintaining badly formatted legacy code in Java and you'll appreciate python's indentation.

yea, you are right on that one sire...seems this is the only reason we python coders seem to be left with..debugging python is truely easier.
But, lets look at the health of algorithms in general, longer codes means more statement logics, more tokens to seperates and evitably more bytecode to analyse and execute!
Also, i find that python is killing ease and code writing style democracy...thus turning programming from fun & creativity to just creativity.
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The only reason why i stil use java over python is the freedom of code writin style(even though java may b a pain in d a$s smtims)

mobolaji88:

yea, you are right on that one sire...seems this is the only reason we python coders seem to be left with..debugging python is truely easier.
But, lets look at the health of algorithms in general, longer codes means more statement logics, more tokens to seperates and evitably more bytecode to analyse and execute!
Also, i find that python is killing ease and code writing style democracy...thus turning programming from fun & creativity to just creativity.
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The only reason why i stil use java over python is the freedom of code writin style(even though java may b a pain in d a$s smtims)

Actually, as much as i love python, i hate the indentation part!! If python had braces, it will probably have beaten php as top server side language. The indentation is a real pain in the a$s!

mobolaji88:

yea, you are right on that one sire...seems this is the only reason we python coders seem to be left with..debugging python is truely easier.
But, lets look at the health of algorithms in general, longer codes means more statement logics, more tokens to seperates and evitably more bytecode to analyse and execute!
Also, i find that python is killing ease and code writing style democracy...thus turning programming from fun & creativity to just creativity.
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The only reason why i stil use java over python is the freedom of code writin style(even though java may b a pain in d a$s smtims)

I don't get the highlighted part. There is only one style for writing java (oop).

Also with modern IDE's, code formatting is no longer an issue.

You should try pycharm if you haven't already.

AZeD1:

I don't get the highlighted part. There is only one style for writing java (oop).

Also with modern IDE's, code formatting is no longer an issue.

You should try pycharm if you haven't already.

when i said code writing style i dint mean the language logic, i meant the way and culture of writing and arranging your statements, algorithms and semantics.
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mobolaji88:

when i said code writing style i dint mean the language logic, i meant the way and culture of writing and arranging your statements, algorithms and semantics.
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Ok.
On a side note, you should learn to use your ide's code formatting tools if you don't already do so.

python indentation is overated. I would have loved python with braces in place of indentation.

If u are coming from braces background you will not like python's indentation.

But personally, I love to see programming codes being indented/spaced out as much as possible python or not.

AZeD1:

Ok.
On a side note, you should learn to use your ide's code formatting tools if you don't already do so.

you probably havent had the opportunity to program under harsh and sudden conditions. Imagine you're a systems admin and all of a sudden your systems server base security showed signs of being breached and you are tasked with writing algorithms to minimize attacks and automate backup processes of large databases within 30mins...this operation mostly uses console access cos companies dont install things like IDEs on their servers...now tell me, without an IDE do you think you havent lost your job already??

IMHO python indentation is way overrated may be it is because of my adventure with c based languages.
I actually struggled with the indentation when I was learning python.Heck, python with braces would av been better

umaryusuf:
If u are coming from braces background you will not like python's indentation.

But personally, I love to see programming codes being indented/spaced out as much as possible python or not.

Best Comment so far..

would have preferred python with braces. indentation was one of the things that knocked me outta python.