[Pythonmac-SIG] Indentation Styles

Tom Fetherston ranch1@earthlink.net
Sun, 26 Nov 2000 18:11:00 -0500


>The Official Python Way is to use spaces for indentation, because
>Guido says so. However, Just and myself being the people we are, and
>both abhorring spaces used in places where tabs should be used have so
>far refrained from converting te Mac-specific parts of MacPython, so
>these are still tab-indented. And the contributions will follow either
>the space or the tab-convention, depending on the taste of the
>contributor.

Does that mean that unix-like 8-space-equivalent-tabs mixed with four
spaces (when needed) is completely depreciated?  That would explain the
interpreter warnings.

Tom