[Tutor] Is there python editor or plugin for a python editor for curly brackets around code blocks?

[xbmuncher]

I talked about earlier how the main problem for me wanting to use curly
braces is because of the visual ease of seeing the end of the code blocks..
well you can change the indention guidelines on most code editors to a
bright color and this might be the next best thing. Also a good feature to
implement is just like there are highlighted curly braces when your mouse or
key presses are inside certain code blocks, they should highlight or change
the indentation guides to the same effect....

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:16 AM, Timothy Grant <timothy.grant at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 9:08 PM, xbmuncher <xboxmuncher at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't see what the big deal is on coming up with the .{ #{, and other
> > bracket types to try to not interfere with normal bracket use in python.
> Its
> > relatively easy to create a parser to identify the brackets in use
> normally
> > and the code block brackets, with regex or without.
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Chad Crabtree <flaxeater at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Oh, I forgot there's another way to add braces
> >>
> >> if it_is_way_cool: #{
> >>  print 'coolness'
> >> #}
> >>
> >> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:06 PM, xbmuncher <xboxmuncher at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> > I'll check out your links. But in response to some of the things said:
> >> > I'm a fan of indentation, a replacement of indentation with curly
> braces
> >> > is
> >> > not what I was aiming for. If I could have it my way, I'd have
> >> > indentation
> >> > and curly braces. I don't want to change official python syntax
> either..
> >> > I
> >> > just want to be able to easily do it myself.
> >> >
> >> > The big problem I had that I didn't explain well enough when I said
> >> > "visually" is that it is visually hard to tell when code blocks end
> when
> >> > other code blocks and statements begin immediately after them. With
> >> > curly
> >> > braces you can easily visualize when looking at a lot of code where
> the
> >> > code
> >> > block ends. The best thing you can do in python currently is to put an
> >> > empty
> >> > line in between the last line of a code block and the following code,
> so
> >> > you
> >> > can better visualize the end of the code block.
> >> >
> >> > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 4:23 AM, Chris Fuller
> >> > <cfuller084 at thinkingplanet.net> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Some clarifications w.r.t. indentation and Python:
> >> >> http://www.secnetix.de/olli/Python/block_indentation.hawk
> >> >>
> >> >> It's just a joke, really:
> >> >> http://timhatch.com/projects/pybraces/
> >> >>
> >> >> Turnabout is fair play!
> >> >> http://blog.micropledge.com/2007/09/nobraces/
> >> >>
> >> >> Also, pindent.py in the Tools/scripts directory of your Python
> >> >> distribution
> >> >> will produce correctly indented scripts if the blocks are designated
> >> >> with
> >> >> a "#end" line.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> But seriously, you don't want to go creating a separate class of
> source
> >> >> file.
> >> >> It'll be harder for you and the other programmers to context switch
> >> >> when
> >> >> working with code that uses the standard style, will confuse others
> who
> >> >> won't
> >> >> know what to do with your code, adds overhead to the compiling, will
> >> >> break
> >> >> when somebody tries to run it under the standard environment, could
> >> >> clutter
> >> >> up your development directories, depending on the implementation,
> etc.
> >> >>
> >> >> Here's a thread from 1999 on the Python mailing list that discusses
> the
> >> >> issue:
> >> >> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/1999-June/004450.html
> >> >>
> >> >> There's another script towards the end that might even do what you
> >> >> want,
> >> >> but
> >> >> you might want to read what they have to say first :)
> >> >>
> >> >> Cheers
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>
>
> If it's no big deal to parse the braces, I would encourage you to
> write your own python preprocessor to handle that for you.
>
>
> --
> Stand Fast,
> tjg. [Timothy Grant]
>
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