[Python-Dev] Two spaces or one?

[Josiah Carlson]

Talin <talin at acm.org> wrote:
> 
> In PEP 9 there's a requirement that PEPs must follow the "emacs 
> convention" of 2 spaces after a period. (I didn't know this was an emacs 
> convention, I thought it was a convention of people who used typewriters.)

If the PEP is displayed as HTML, then one or two spaces after a period
in plain text might not matter; any browser that I've bothered to check
visually merges space characters unless they are intermixed/replaced
with non-breaking space (&nbsp;). If ReStructured Text converts to
non-breaking space, then they matter.

In terms of text text editing, I think that as long as one is consistant
within a document, that's good enough.


 - Josiah