title: from php to python - dealing without braces
body: <p>i am a PHP developer by... well that's just what i picked up from a need to develop web services. since than i've found a need to start using python for various projects. one of the first things that has pissed me off is the obsession "properly" indenting code. now i understand its purpose. however, what i have found is that not using <code>{ }</code> in my code blocks tends to cause me some periods of wtf. </p>
  
  <p>because of this, i find myself doing stuff like </p>
  
  <pre class="lang-py prettyprint-override"><code>if a is not None:
    for x in a:
        print x
    # endfor
  # endif
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>this seems to help me keep my code in order and visually i can see whats in scope to the loop and control statement. </p>
  
  <p>so what are some other people doing out there that come from the land of <code>{</code> and <code>;</code> ? or am i the only maniac with this issue?</p>