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> 
> On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 03:48  PM, John Cowan wrote:
> >
> > Python is essentially Scheme with indentation instead of parentheses.
> 
> Yeah, which seems fragile to me considering the number of programs and 
> editors I have lying around that silently convert tabs to n spaces and 
> vice versa - it just doesn't strike me as a robust syntax design.

I'm sorry, but it strikes you wrongly.  Corruption of Python source files is 
no more a problem with Python than it is with any othr language, in my long 
experience with it (and other languages).  For the very rare cases where 
tab/space is a problem, tabnanny.py is a very effective "lint", and usually 
does the trick.


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Python&XML column: 2. Introducing PyXML - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/09/25/p
y.html
The Past, Present and Future of Web Services 1 - http://www.webservices.org/ind
ex.php/article/articleview/663/1/24/
The Past, Present and Future of Web Services 2 - 'http://www.webservices.org/in
dex.php/article/articleview/679/1/24/
Serenity through markup - http://adtmag.com/article.asp?id=6807
Tip: Using generators for XML processing - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerwork
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