[Python-3000] [Python-3000-checkins] r45689 - in python/branches/p3yk: Include/bytesobject.h Lib/test/test_bytes.py Lib/test/test_file.py Objects/bytesobject.c Objects/fileobject.c

[Guido van Rossum]

On 4/24/06, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 11:18 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
> > > Hmmm... Should we see this as official confirmation that PEP 7 is going to
> > > go to 4-space indents instead of tab ones, or is it just an editor
> > > accidentily left in Google-indent mode? (I think I prefer the former ;)
> >
> > The former. I thought it was already decided?
>
> Yes, it was.

If it wasn't written down it will be forgotten. I'll update various PEPs.

> > Of course, only for
> > *new* code so far, to ease merges.
>
> Definitely, although there should be a flag day at some point where we
> reformat the old code, which I definitely think we should do, as painful
> as it might be.

Doesn't have to be a flag day -- we can reformat code
opportunistically whenever there's no hope of ever doing merges from
2.x.

I do plan that within one file we'll stick to style consistency.

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