It seems "easy" but meaningful whitespace is a cluster-fck.
It seems "easy" but meaningful whitespace is a cluster-fck.
I think you misunderstand the concept of "configuration file". These are not intended for programmers but for users of the program you write.
White complaints about Pythons' meaningful white are still common, programmers can get over that by, indeed, getting a better editor or otherwise wrapping their head around the situation.
But end-users can't be expected to have this kind of sophistication. Explaining to someone while things they can't see have made their program usable is no fun.