Collective memory

[Gene Wirchenko]

Irmen de Jong <irmen at -NOSPAM-REMOVETHIS-xs4all.nl> wrote:

>Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > Python uses it for actually determining the logic in your program, which
> > IMHO is dangerous.

     Not at all.  It just means that I will never use Python if it is
at all avoidable.  My backhanded compliments: it is actually less safe
than C.

> >     if <something>
> >         <work>
> >         <more work>
> >         <add numbers>
> >
> > Is <add numbers> part of the if statement, or did someone with different
> > tab settings from the author make a mistake and align it accidentally?
>
>To catch such mistakes, Python has the -tt command line option:
>-t     : issue warnings about inconsistent tab usage (-tt: issue errors)

     What is inconsistent about the tab usage above?  That is, why
would it be flagged?

>There's also tabnanny.py in the standard library to check things
>before executing code. I'm not sure, but I suspect that PyChecker
>also checks this.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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