Tabs -vs- Spaces: Tabs should have won.

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Sun Jul 17 21:42:12 EDT 2011


Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> writes:

> The exception is, you have an indented block of code, perhaps three or four
> indents deep (surely you never allow anything to get beyond five or six
> indents?), and you want to raise an exception:
>
>                 raise SomeExceptionType("and here's a rather long error"
>                                         "message blah blah blah")

Give yourself plenty more room, stay within PEP 8, *and* make the
alignment robust in the face of changes::

                raise SomeExceptionType(
                        "and here's a rather long error"
                        "message blah blah blah")

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