>>I'm not coding in Python, but I'm aware of that issue and I can't say I'm fond of it. Making invisible characters have significance in controlling execution is pretty stupid, IMHO.
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>Similar to my first reaction - but reading other people's code is *very* easy in that language. If you view it from another POV, it only needs an editor marking/mapping meaningful invisible characters or - even better - arranging identation on the same lines as the compiler "understands" the source (as they have multiline strings it is not totally trivial). Give it an honest chance before making a judgement - the fact that identation is used in nearly every language even if control structure is governed by the constructs needing their complement (as in if-endif) or some block markers (like {} or begin-end) hints that it might be helpful<g>.
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>regards
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>thomas

Nope, too much of a problem. A slip of the finger that deletes something as inconsequential as white space and your program breaks or runs differently. This is as stupid as case-sensitivity in program languages. Perhaps more stupid.