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Another anecdote on how whitespace can be evil

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In the entry from a Python fan Ruby Style Adding Methods to Existing Classes in Python? you look into the comments to see the following code:

class Foo:


def __init__(self):

self.x =

2 Responses to “Another anecdote on how whitespace can be evil”

  1. Charles Oliver Nutter Says:
    July 18th, 2006 at 3:25 pm

    And at least in Ruby there’s either curlies or an explicit end, so auto-formatting is also possible there.

  2. Justin Says:
    December 12th, 2006 at 3:11 am

    I have been coding in Python for 3 years now, and never ran into any lost whitespace That obviously is a wordpress and not a python problem.

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