Deprecate tabs for indenting (was Re: Indenting with tabs vs spaces)
Erik de Castro Lopo
nospam at mega-nerd.com
Tue Dec 4 03:02:56 EST 2001
Courageous wrote:
>
> >I like the width of 4 spaces also, BUT I use tabs and configured my editor
> >to "DISPLAY" tabs as 4 characters in width.
>
> In my experience, the vast majority of people who do this
> inevitably end up mixing tabs and spaces. The moment you do
> this, you have defacto chosen an tabwidth for your viewing
> audience whether they like it or not.
Actually, what the previous poster suggested will prevent problems.
If spaces should creep in Python won't compile the code.
Erik
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