Python Dialogs

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, 7 May 2024 at 03:42, jak via Python-list <python-list at python.org> wrote:
>
> Loris Bennett ha scritto:
> > ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
> >
> >>    Me (indented by 2) and the chatbot (flush left). Lines lengths > 72!
> >
> > Is there a name for this kind of indentation, i.e. the stuff you are
> > writing not being flush left?  It is sort of contrary to
> > what I think of as "normal" indentation.  You seem to use it in all your
> > postings, too, which hurts my brain, but I guess that's my problem :-)
> >
> > [snip (40 lines)]
> >
>
> It's not just your problem. When the texts are particularly long and
> complex, I happen to use Google-Translator. It makes bad translations if
> the lines are interrupted by the newline, so I wrote a tool dedicated to
> Stefan and to all those who indent like him. This tool takes the text
> from the clipboard, removes all the superfluous spaces, combines all the
> lines in one and puts the result back into the clipboard. :-D
>

Fun fact: His posts are completely irrelevant to people who follow the
mailing list. Due to a dispute over permissions, his posts are blocked
at the gateway. So all of us folks who use the mailing list never need
to see the wonky indentation.

ChrisA