[Python-ideas] mixing tabs and spaces

[Ned Batchelder]

On 4/7/2013 8:02 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Guido van Rossum writes:
>
>   > There is a simpler solution. Just don't use tabs.
>
> Is there a reason tabs used for "syntactically significant"
> indentation can't be made a warning, or even a syntax error?  As far
> as I can see they're just an attractive nuisance.
>
> I guess that ship sailed with Python 3.0, though.

Luckily, before the ship sailed, they loaded a new feature onto it: 
mixed whitespace is always an error in Python 3, as if it were run with -tt.

--Ned.

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