On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Terry Reedy
On 3/31/2014 2:30 PM, Eric Snow wrote:
Is this still an open question, Terry?
It is not currently for #9974 because after consideration of two proposed patches (one part of another issue), I decided that the conditions being guarded against either could not occur or could be checked in the caller, so that no api change was needed.
However, I believe the fix for another bug, http://bugs.python.org/issue20387 will require copying the code that correctly formats indents in the old compat method to the newer method, which incorrectly assumes that indents are spaces only. I might end up wishing I could refactor the code. So this may well become a live issue again, and I would still like to know what people think.
It simply depends on the utility of customizing the default behavior there. I seem to remember subclassing Untokenize for something in a personal project, but I expect doing so wasn't necessary.
How do we do code searches (as for use of "Untokenize") these days?
I believe there was one for which Guido was advocating, but I don't recall it's name. Such a search would be useful though. -eric