Waffling between Python and Ruby

Garry Hodgson garry at sage.att.com
Thu Jun 15 15:04:02 EDT 2000


Mark Jackson wrote:
> 
> "Warren Postma" <embed at NOSPAM.geocities.com> writes:
> 
> > Having something
> > look correct on the screen, but not work because of misuse of tabs versus
> > spaces, or incorrect indentation, is something that still continues to bug
> > me.
> 
> Indulge my curiosity - how many times has this actually happened in
> your six months of using Python?

well, i'm not warren, but over the last several years of 
python use this has happened to me maybe twice.  each time i got
a syntax error, looked at it, said "oh.", and fixed it.
lost productive time: perhaps a minute and a half.

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