Another anecdote on how whitespace can be evil on Dion Almaer's Blog

Jul 18

Another anecdote on how whitespace can be evil

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 =

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.
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.