[Python-3000] -t command line option

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Jun 3 05:47:38 CEST 2008


On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Giovanni Bajo <rasky at develer.com> wrote:
> Python 3.0 defaults to "-tt" (error on inconsistent usage of tab and
> spaces). Then: why is there still a "-t" and "-tt" command line option?
> Is just a relic that should be removed?

Probably. Though there are plenty of precedents for leaving such
inactive options in for a long time, to avoid unnecessarily breaking
hairy shell scripts.

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