Non-Indented python

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

Wed, 28 Nov 2001 00:13:11 +0000 (UTC), Huaiyu Zhu <huaiyu at gauss.almadan.ibm.com> pisze:

> An easy and brutal solution is to mandate that tab is the only indent
> charactor.

I refuse to use tabs in size != 8 and want 4-character indents.
And some people don't use tabs at all.

Your proposal is incompatible with those (reasonable IMHO) positions.

> A better long term solution is to write a smarter python-mode for
> your editor.

It's not only an editor but all tools which display or print the file,
terminals, mailers and newsreaders. It makes no sense to require
special tools just for working with Python source.

> The fault is at the utilities that on the one hand think tab could
> be equivalent to some spaces but on the other hand cannot guess
> exactly how many.

They can. It's always 8 precisely to avoid guessing.

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