Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)

On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 21:35:25 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

I restore the redundancy by using “#end” comments. E.g. a seriously
nontrivial case:

But even if that helps you organizationally, it doesn't resolve issues
of the interpreter potentially mis-parsing things due to mismatches in
tab/space factor between $EDITOR and the Python RTE, which is a truly
ridiculous thing to have to be concerned about.

(Thing I'm curious about, but don't have a test environment to hand -
does a blank line with a different indent level, in between lines of
the same level, break out of the block? E.g., given the following:

if condition:
    foo()
   
    bar()

baz()

if one needs to re-arrange the order of operations, for reasons, and
one is incautious about selecting and shuffling lines in one's editor,
such that one ends up with this:

if condition:
    bar()

    foo()
   
baz()

...what happens? Does the interpreter catch this as an "obvious"
mistake? Does foo() get called regardless of condition? Depending on
$EDITOR/settings this is visually indistinguishable and not a difficult
position to end up in.)