[Python-Dev] Indentation in reStructuredText documents (was: [Python-checkins] peps: Restore whitespace characters lost via email transmission.)

[Brian Curtin]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 20:31, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au>wrote:

> Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> writes:
>
> > FYI, reST uses three-space indents, not four (so that blocks align
> > nicely under the leading two dots + one space), so I think the change
> > was intentional.
>
> No, reST doesn't specify any particular level of indentation. Like most
> Python programmers I prefer four-space indentation, so I do the same in
> my reST documents::
>
>    ..  epigraph::
>        “Foo bar baz” —Fnorble
>
> I strongly recommend the same for Python documentation.
>

We already use three and it seems to look and function properly.

-1 to a mass re-spacing.
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