[PhantomGremlin]

People bitch about indentation in Python. But in this case it would have prevented the bug!

Of course Python doesn't even have a goto, so the code would have needed to be structured differently to start with.

If I were a betting man I'd wager that this bug wasn't really an accident. It would be really interesting to check commit logs to see the history.

[wreegab]

> People bitch about indentation in Python

Really? I did something in Python for the first time a while ago and the indentation as code block is something I find very elegant. I can't fathom why would people find something wrong with this.

[baq]

it's relatively harder to refactor code - you can't just select between { and }. otherwise, no idea - python is my weapon of choice, so i may be biased.

[rplnt]

Can't really write onliners. And use of otherwise great interactive shell is not as good (not that bracketed blocks would help).

[schnable]

Style guideline of using curly braces with ALL if statements, even one liners, would have gone a long way to prevent this.

[lzhz]

Code reviews and comprehensive test suites for critical code would have prevented this and many other kinds of mistakes besides.