If I'm testing, adding code temporarily, or trying something out, I left justify out of indentation so it's obvious. Can't do that with python. Haven't come up with a good alternative.

I’m going to be that guy and say you should put the opening bracket after the parenthesis and indent the code in your brackets. Having brackets does make it easier to tell where your block of code is but you should still write clean code. (Unless you only write JavaScript because everyone gave up on writing clean code there)

I think that he's learning that programming languages require some form of structure to define a block of code. Python does it with : and space indentation, c and other languages use braces {} , pascal uses begin and end; The important part is know what you are defining a block of code for.

You just have to imagine brackets are there to enclose a code block.

4 spaces or more per tab in python might help a lot.

I’m a C, C++, Java dev myself, and I enjoy the ease of coding in Python. It does take a bit of mental conditioning to go from more procedural languages to more a functional language. Python’s indentation style persuades you to make smaller functions/classes, use closures, eyeball recursion, and put things into multiple smaller files. Learning additional language patterns and syntax has helped my coding in other languages by using those skills to look at problems a little differently.