TABS in the CPython C source code

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On Feb 6, 9:31 pm, "Alf P. Steinbach" <al... at start.no> wrote:
> Just trying to delve into the CPython source code.
>
> Pleasant surprise: while e.g. the gcc compiler is written in K&R C (1975 style
> C), CPython seems to be written in almost modern C (1989 and on).
>
> But, hey, TABS used for indenting, combined haphazardly and randomly with SPACES
> used for indenting, in the same source files...
>
> The size-8 tabs look really bad in an editor configured with tab size 4, as is
> common in Windows. I'm concluding that the CPython programmers configure their
> Visual Studio's to *nix convention. Or perhaps modern Visual Studio has default
> tab size 8, it wouldn't surprise me (the best version was the MSVC 6.0 Developer
> Studio, since then that IDE has only gone downhill being re-based on the Office
> Assistant inspired "for dummies" IDE that Microsoft had for web designers).
>
> Anyways, I would suggest converting all those tabs to spaces, as e.g. the Boost
> library project does  --  no tabs allowed.
>
> That's much more platform-independent. :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Alf

So what's stopping you from doing this yourself?