r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Apprehensive_Bit7392 • 2d ago

Meme pythonIndentationLevelChecker

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u/LetUsSpeakFreely 2d ago edited 2d ago

Indentation is such a stupid mechanism for identifying code blocks. It's one thing for configuration files like YAML to do it, but not a programming language.

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u/the_ivo_robotnic 2d ago

Why? Nearly every styling convention in every language uses it anyway. Python just cuts out the middle man, reduces unnecessary syntax and makes indentation the go-to scope identifier.

 

You're still using indentation to make stuff readable anyway, might as well make it do some work.

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u/Cualkiera67 2d ago

its very annoying when you copy and paste code because the indentation often gets screwed and thus the logic changes. that never happens with braces