Because in the real world there are crappy programmers writing 1000 line functions and code nested 10 levels deep. Having explicitly delimited code blocks makes

Because in the real world there are crappy programmers writing 1000 line functions and code nested 10 levels deep. Having explicitly delimited code blocks makes code, especially bad code, easier to read. I'd rather see 3 or 4 "}", maybe with comments, rather than just seeing a large reduction in indent and having to scroll up 3 pages to figure out the code structure. I guess if you're doing team-based Python development then everyone is going to be forced to be sensitive to indent, and maybe use a Python-aware editor, but often in a large non-Python project there are many different editors and indent configurations being used and the code structure is unreadable - but at least you can use a language aware formatter or indent tool to recover it. In Python any sort of loss of proper indenting would obviously change the functionality of the code. Maybe this never happens ?