You've missed the GP point by so wide a margin you could have as well shot in the opposite direction. You're basically doing exactly what they asked you not to.

You've missed the GP point by so wide a margin you could have as well shot in the opposite direction. You're basically doing exactly what they asked you not to. People are different, work in different ways, are productive with different techniques, have their own habits formed over decades that they don't feel the need to change. None of that means they're worse than you, who, of course, always properly formats your code. It's perfectly possible, and not that rare, to be careful with indentation and not liking significant whitespace (esp. if the rules are not overly consistent, like in Python). It's also possible to feel like the need to manually adjust indents after moving the code around is a distracting chore that braces largely eliminate. It's possible to work exclusively within an IDE that will make "dangling else" problem impossible to happen, therefore it's possible not to see that as a problem. And so on. Keep an open mind. Try to get accustomed to various style of working with code. Stop your brain from being discriminatory, and don't assume too much about what other people consider "good" or "poor". If in doubt, ask politely. BTW: I'm using Python since 2.5.2 professionally. Just a quick disclaimer.