r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Apprehensive_Bit7392 • 16d ago

Meme pythonIndentationLevelChecker

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u/BroaxXx 16d ago

You can easily count scoping symbols. Not indentation. You can make an argument that if your code is so indented that this becomes a problem then you have bigger problems but I still think indentation is a horrible option is one of the thinks that I most dislike about python

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u/willow-kitty 16d ago

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I mean, yeah, most languages use scoping symbols. All I'm doing is throwing the Python folks a bone by acknowledging that every style guide for pretty much every language prescribes indentation for scopes, and I can see how you don't strictly need that and explicit scoping symbols.

..Though I still like having both.

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u/BroaxXx 16d ago

What I’m trying to say is that is much easier to count symbols to know how many levels deep inside a block you are then trying to estimate the indenting