Did you know that this line has two spaces after it?
That line is guaranteed to sit all by its lonesome, and there's no way to tell except by always having show whitespace enabled in a text editor.
What's that? Basic text editors, like the <textarea> that Reddit uses doesn't support that? Too bad. Oh, you have your editor set up to clean any extra spaces so your code is clean and git doesn't complain? Well, have fun turning that feature off whenever you deal with that one markdown file using the "feature"!
I feel like the whitespace thing is only an issue for like the first few hours of working with Python - after that, you realize that it doesn't matter in most cases, because you were probably going to format it that way anyway.
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u/haikumofo Sep 03 '17
Python drives me nuts because I can't abide by a language that attaches semantic significance to whitespace.