Confused about pep 318

[Shalabh Chaturvedi]

Peter Hansen wrote:

> I'm also surprised that the choice which had the greatest public
> support during the straw poll at PyCon isn't still under discussion,

I doubt any of the following would have made it in Python had it 
followed the course of 'greatest public support':

1. Whitespace based blocks
2. Docstrings

Looking back, I remember when I started out with Python I had a "Eeww, 
what's this!?" reaction to both of the above, very similar to what I 
initially felt for @-decorator. After using it in my code I find it's 
actually not bad at all. I'd prefer to use the '|' character for 
aesthetics but am happy with @ as well.

Cheers,
Shalabh