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Python with braces. Because python is awesome, but whitespace is awful.

15 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 5 stories, 10 comments · first 2019-08-12 · latest 2026-06-25

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  1. You need Bython https://github.com/mathialo/bython
    comment by bonoboTP · 2026-06-25 · in LuaJIT 3.0 proposed syntax extensions
  2. …without busywork, your IDE or formatter dare not help you till you resolve the ambiguity. One day https://github.com/mathialo/bython one day!
    comment by rao-v · 2026-03-22 · in No Semicolons Needed
  3. …but still, it has many people reacting and I think that the community is waiting to be revived lol. https://github.com/mathialo/bython/issues/72 Nothing stops us from forking it either too or bringing the original person if they are still…
    comment by Imustaskforhelp · 2025-09-26 · in Python with braces. Because Python is awesome, but whitespace is awful
  4. …from a 15yo forking another project that replaces indentation with brackets in python code ( https://github.com/mathialo/bython ). bro actually made a meme into reality.
    comment by rldjbpin · 2024-12-08 · in Python with Rizz
  5. Because bython is basically a glorified regular expression search and replace: https://github.com/mathialo/bython/blob/master/bython/parser... Rather than a real parser. A real parser knows about the context it is in, and as long as the…
    comment by jerf · 2024-07-03 · in Python with Braces
  6. You mean, using something like bython[1]? [1] https://github.com/mathialo/bython
    comment by jgilias · 2021-04-25 · in Has UML died without anyone noticing?
  7. There is also Bython: https://github.com/mathialo/bython
    comment by azhenley · 2020-11-22 · in Show HN: Making Python one-liner-fit with the new pwk (Python With Kurly braces)
  8. > I think the day we can import braces from __future__ might not be far away. Behold, bython: https://github.com/mathialo/bython
    comment by Izkata · 2020-07-15 · in Bringing the print statement back
  9. …so can the type of indentation allowed. But otherwise I can get over it. And then there’s Bython... https://github.com/mathialo/bython
    comment by 52-6F-62 · 2019-10-12 · in Python is not a great programming language
  10. …at the right indent level than to use { }. In fact writing this comment inspired me to find this: https://github.com/mathialo/bython
    comment by boyobo · 2019-08-12 · in Python Is Eating the World