Hi, Two does not make Python complain. If you are going to let sighted people read your code, you might want to change it to four right before that. Jim James D Homme, , Usability Engineering, Highmark Inc., james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx, 412-544-1810 "it is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis." -- Margaret Bonnano Highmark internal only: Consider Usability Engineering On Your Next Project or release. http://highwire.highmark.com/sites/iwov/hwt093/ "Daniel Dalton" <d.dalton@xxxxxxx et.au> To Sent by: "blind programming" programmingblind- <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> bounce@freelists. cc org Subject code indentation (python and c...) 04/03/2008 08:26 AM Please respond to programmingblind@ freelists.org Hi, I'm learning python and know a bit of c. Is the following code ok? Like is it fine to use 2 spaces for indenting instead of four? I prefer 2 personally since I read braille... So is this just a personal choice? BTW how do you guys code in python with out braille? Its quite white-space dependent... Anyway is this code ok re white space? #!/usr/bin/python # my-program.py i = 2 if i == 2 : print "hello" print "done." Obviously it is useless and the if is pointless since 2 is hard coded to i... But is the indentation fine? Or is it a bad standard. I know it works. And is the following good c code re indentation? Or should I be using 4 or 5 spaces? int main (void) { printf ("hello world\n"); } So is my 2 space indenting ok? Or is this a personal choice thing? Or is there a certain number of spaces I should follow? I just set up my text editor (emacs) to do indenting for me and set it to 2... Should this be changed? Thanks, -- Daniel Dalton http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/ d.dalton@xxxxxxxxxxxx __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind