In the early days of C, you’d occasionally see someone — probably a former Pascal programmer — write something like this: #define BEGIN { #define END } This would usually initiate complaints about ...

If this seems like the thing most bothersome to you about Python, why not "suspend this judgement for a while and give it a try? Speaking as a former Perl programmer, I don't regret doing so for a ...

Since indentation is so important in Python, are there any particular editors that are better (in some way) at helping you keep indentation straight? I notice that gedit is mentioned on the python ...

Why should Python's indentation be a problem? You use indentation in pretty much every other high-level programming language, otherwise you won't understand your code tomorrow. The only difference is ...

If there’s one thing about Python that’s slightly disconcerting, it’s the complete lack of braces, or as they’re called in American English, suspenders. A feature of every variety of C, Java, PHP, ...