Are there any pitfalls with using whitespace in Python?

Question

At the moment I have never had a problem with whitespace in Python (although I\'ve only used it in two projects and I was the only programmer). What are some potential pitf

Answer 1

Long ago, in and environment far, far away, there were languages (such as RPG) that depended on the column structure of punch cards. This was a tedious and annoying system, and led to many errors, and newer languages such as BASIC, pascal, and so forth were designed without this dependency.

A generation of programmers were trained on these languages and told repeatedly that the freedom to put anything anywhere was a wonderful feature of the newer languages, and they should be grateful. The freedom was used, abused, and calibrated (cf the IOCC) for many years.

Now the pendulum has begun to swing back, but many people still remember that forced layout is bad in some way vague, and resist it.

IMHO, the thing to do is to work with languages on their own terms, and not get hung up on tastes-great-less-filling battles.