Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

>> As long as there is an indentation escape mechanism, nesting by
>> indentation seems like a good idea, at least without having tried it.  

> After using it for a few years now I am satisfied with it, with one
> exception: for debugging purposes I often want to (temporarily) disable
> a few instructions. In other languages this can be done by enclosing the
> statments in an if(false)..endif or something similar, but not in
> Python. There is no block comment either, so you must insert an if(0):
> *and* indent the range of statements. I find this the only annoying
> aspect of the bloks-by-indendation mechanism. I guess a block comment
> would solve it.

As long as they don't add that to the language, an editor that can be made
to do that could help. There are a range of code editors that can do
something like that quite easily, just by marking the code and telling it
to comment it out. 

Gerhard
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