In the early days of C, you’d occasionally see someone — probably a former Pascal programmer — write something like this: #define BEGIN { #define END } This would usually initiate complaints about ...

Since indentation is so important in Python, are there any particular editors that are better (in some way) at helping you keep indentation straight? I notice that gedit is mentioned on the python ...

If there’s one thing about Python that’s slightly disconcerting, it’s the complete lack of braces, or as they’re called in American English, suspenders. A feature of every variety of C, Java, PHP, ...