Indentation style...

[Bernhard Herzog]

Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net> writes:


> The interpreter will treat a tab as 8 spaces. Always.

Well, not exactly. The following code is syntactically correct (at least
in the sense that Python 2.1 doesn't produce a syntax error):

# tab-width:4

def f():
    a = 1      # four spaces indent
	b = 2  # one tab indent

The Python tokenizer recognizes various forms of the tab-width comment.
I'm not sure it's documented anywhere except in the sources.


  Bernhard

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