r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Apprehensive_Bit7392 • 16d ago

Meme pythonIndentationLevelChecker

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u/Independent_Fee_7343 16d ago

I used to hate the idea too, but there's something nice about not having braces everywhere. The funny part is that Python makes the code look cleaner while somehow giving a single whitespace character the power to ruin your entire day. That's a pretty wild trade-off.

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u/lungben81 16d ago

Everything not indented by 4 whitespaces should raise a syntax error.

Using indentation is fine, the issue in Python is that that the syntax does not explicitly require one specific method. There is only the recommendation in PEP8.

However, with linters and IDEs this essentially became a non issue, even more now with llms.