Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated

[Random832]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016, at 20:34, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> That's not the sense of being discussed here.

Yes it is - this started as a discussion of whether indentation and
alignment should be based on fixed spaces (as text editors support) or
dynamic tab stops (as any word processing format supports).

> How absurd. Why should a
> letter containing nothing but text be classified as "not text" because it
> was written in Microsoft World or LibreOffice rather than vi or emacs?

Because it's not _a text file_. It's not obligated to be devoid of
formatting markup or other metadata, or to have a perfectly flat
structure, or to be edited in programs whose design has not been updated
since the early 1970s, which are _exactly_ the complaints leveled
against python source code at the start of this discussion..

______ : Python :: MS Word : Plain Text