Rearranging code, refactoring, moving blocks, inserting conditionals etc would be easier and could be auto-indented if there were braces. Instead you need to carefully ensure that everything aligns correctly with the intended meaning at the new location.<p>Also, a closing brace is a nice signal to the editor that it&#x27;s time to &quot;outdent&quot;.<p>Finally, people seem to forget that python already has an opening brace, except it&#x27;s spelled &#x27;:&#x27;. So why no closing brace to match? This seems inconsistent to me.