I&#x27;ve been using Python heavily since about 2000.<p>Approximately 2.5 times since then has whitespace been a problem, and which I fixed in under 10 seconds each time.
Yet, the readability gains from removal of block delimiters in that time frame is uncountable.<p>&gt; Saving a few keystrokes writing &quot;.format&quot; doesn&#x27;t even register on the same scale of annoyance<p>It isn&#x27;t just .format, it is:<p><pre><code>    .format(long_variable_name1=long_variable_name1, 
            long_variable_name2=long_variable_name2)
</code></pre>
This is a huge win that should have happened long ago.