Non-Indented python

[Paul Jackson]

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
> It's not a minority. Almost everybody uses this convention. It's
> better to use the most common convention consistently than to invent
> new conventions (like "tab = one indent level").

I agree.

So what if tab stops every 8 columns is a silly convention
that serves well none of the uses that Terry claims would
justify tabs.  What justifies tabs isn't these potential uses,
but longstanding convention, albeit loosely followed.

I'd encourage the purists to go tilt at windmills that are
connected to something useful, like an electric generator or
a water pump.  Attempts to find purity in silly little tab
conventions serve only to annoy the inmates and frustrate
the purists.

Meanwhile, from Parser/tokenizer.c:

    /* Don't ever change this -- it would break the portability of Python code */
    #define TABSIZE 8
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