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    <p>Perhaps your C++ background (and thus who your peers are) is clouding your perception of this (ie selective sampling) but in my experience the reaction to Python's "white space is intent" meme is anywhere from ambivalent to they absolutely love it. The reason a lot of people love it is that it forces people to format their code.</p> <p>I can't say I've ever met anyone who "hates" it because hating it is much like hating the idea of well-formatted code.</p> <p><strong>Edit:</strong> let me put this in some perspective.</p> <p>In the Java world there are two main methods of packaging and deploying Web apps: Ant and Maven.</p> <p>Ant is basically an XML-based Make facility that has tasks for the common things you do. It's a blank slate, which is powerful, but it also means you have to write a lot of common things yourself and every installation is free to do things slightly differently. All of this is well-intentioned but can make it hard to figure out someone's Ant scripts.</p> <p>Maven is far more fully features. It has archetypes, which are basically project types. Depending on which archetype(s) you use, you won't have to write any tasks to start, stop, clean, build, etc but you will have a mandated directory structure, which is quite deep.</p> <p>The advantage of that is if you've seen one Maven Web app you've seen them all. You know the commands. You know the structure. That's <em>extremely</em> useful.</p> <p>But you have people who absolutely <em>hate</em> Maven and I think it comes down to this: they don't like giving up control, even when it's ultimately in their interest to do so. Also, you'll find a certain brand of person who thinks that their use case is a justifiable exception. You see this personality trait a lot. For example, I think an old Joel post mentioned a story where someone wanted to use "enter" to go from the username to password form fields even though the convention was that enter executed the default action (usually "OK") so they had to write a custom dialog class for Windows for this.</p> <p>Basically some people just don't like being told what to do and others are completely obstinate in their belief that they're right even when all evidence points to the contrary.</p> <p>This probably explains why some supposedly hate Python's white space: they don't like being told how to format their code. They like the freedom of C/C++.</p>
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    1. CO+1 I've met programmers who hate Python's formatting, but these are the same people who love C and assembly and have never done any serious coding in either.
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    2. COIndeed, forcing people to format their code is a good thing. Code formatting is very important as a project grows, nobody wants to track something down in a 10k LOC thingy when every other file has a different coding style, so Python makes beginners think more about this. Also since you're now using indentation for both blocks and style, you can get rid of those stupid curly braces which by the way(like most programming characters) are ways off on a German keyboard. And nobody can tell me that he's doing serious work without an Editor/IDE that doesn't feature auto indent/tabs to spaces conver.
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    3. CO"The reason a lot of people love it is that it forces people to format their code." This makes sense. I personally can't stand to see inconsistently-formatted C++ code, so having the language itself force it could be nice.
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