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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:34:54 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 11:26:18 +0100, Bart wrote:

> (2) You want to temporarily comment out an 'if' line so that the
> following block is unconditional. You can't do that with also
> unindenting the block.

In Emacs, I have commands defined to adjust the indentation of the 
selected region. Surely any other decent editor would offer the same.

> And, also  the block then merges with the
> following one as it's at the same level, so when you want to change it
> back...

This is where my “#end” comments come in.

> (6a) And maybe there's big comment blocking in the middle of block;
> comments don't need nesting! If there are lots of comments and few
> statements, finding the end of the block (ie. the last statement of this
> block) can become quite an exercise.

Again, “#end” comments help with this.

> (7) You take some Python code you've seen online (eg. in a usenet post)
> and paste into your editor. Maybe you want to merge it with your own
> code.
> 
> But its tabbing is all spaces; yours is all tabs. Plus invariably, the
> whole thing has extra indentation (eg. the leftmost statement is already
> indented). Or you want to copy code from within a block to a different
> indent level.

Like I said, Emacs makes this easy. Also a quick application of “untabify” 
will turn all tabs in the selected region to spaces, to match with the 
rest of my code.