pylint: don't warn about tabs

[Ben Finney]

Bjoern Schliessmann <usenet-mail-0306.20.chr0n0ss at spamgourmet.com> writes:

> Alan Isaac wrote:
> > As a tab user, I want the tabs warning turned off.
>
> Advice: Don't.

Agreed. Sticking to spaces for indentation avoids the ambiguity of
interpretation that ASCII TAB characters are subject to. In addition,
PEP 8 (which many people consider a strong suggestion for a style
guide for all Python code) recommends four space characters for
indentation.

> IIRC it's planned in future Python versions that TABs aren't
> supported for indentation.

I've not seen such plans, can you support that?

If you're thinking of this post from Guido, please note the date it
was made:

    <URL:http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=101968>

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Ben Finney