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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 16:57:21 -0700
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
[...]
> Think about why you bother to indent code in languages where the compiler 
> ignores such indentation anyway: it means you are expressing the structure 
> of code in two different ways, one via statement brackets, and the other 
> via indentation. This redundancy aids in understanding that the code does 
> what you think it does.
>
> Python gets rid of this redundancy, by having the compiler take notice of 
> the whitespace and removing the statement bracketing symbols. So I put it 
> back, by adding statement bracketing symbols that the compiler ignores.

You might find Bython useful.

https://github.com/mathialo/bython

(I don't, but you might.)

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
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