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I don't find the mental burden of formatting code to have a positive ROI.

I want to write syntacially-valid code, without worrying about the visual presentation of it. (I want a good presentation, but I don't want to put forth the effort to create it.)



Yeah that's why I fight with how I feel about python so much. In other languages I can just shove the curly bracket in the right place and fix the whitespace later, but Python has whitespace as significant, so I'm forced to fix it/get it right. But that means it's right when I dig a "temporary" script up years later.


You can write a lot (but not all) Python on one line.

And my IDE makes it very easy to indent a snippet.




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