My editor understands when to indent in Python, and often when to dedent. When it doesn't know to dedent, I just hit Backspace on the next line to close the indented block.
I understand it's a matter of taste, but I don't understand why people insist on repeating themselves -- you're already going to have something indent your code for readability, why not have that just be what the language uses, too?
That said, you should know that in Python, at least, there is famous first-class support for the brace styles of many other languages, invoked by the brace operator "#". For example, if you want C-style braces you can simply write like so, using the brace operator to tell Python what you're doing:
def hello(): # {
print("Hello, world!")
# }
And Python will automatically understand it correctly!
A more complex example uses Ruby-style "end" and conditionals:
def odd_or_even(num):
if num % 2:
return "Odd"
else:
return "Even"
# end
# end
Python's advanced brace-style parsing AI will correctly handle this. You can even mix and match brace styles within a single codebase, or even a single file, for times when your team just can't agree on one approach.
Fair enough. I save on keystrokes by not inserting braces. I do have to manually indent once in a while, but the editor will usually figure out what I mean.
As an example, in a for loop in Python, I need to press a single key for indenting[1]. In a language like C, it would be 4 keystrokes - 2 for each brace. Come to think of it, this is true for if conditions, functions, etc. Pretty much all places you'd need braces in C. I'm having trouble figuring out where in regular programming in Python a braces would mean less work for the programmer.
Indenting is simply less work than inserting braces.
[1]Strictly speaking, for dedenting when I'm done with the for loop.
All you are saying is personal taste and familiarity. Nothing wrong with that but I could argue every one of your points exactly the other way and would be as right as you are.
I understand it's a matter of taste, but I don't understand why people insist on repeating themselves -- you're already going to have something indent your code for readability, why not have that just be what the language uses, too?
That said, you should know that in Python, at least, there is famous first-class support for the brace styles of many other languages, invoked by the brace operator "#". For example, if you want C-style braces you can simply write like so, using the brace operator to tell Python what you're doing:
And Python will automatically understand it correctly!A more complex example uses Ruby-style "end" and conditionals:
Python's advanced brace-style parsing AI will correctly handle this. You can even mix and match brace styles within a single codebase, or even a single file, for times when your team just can't agree on one approach.