Python indentation (3 spaces)
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Fri Oct 5 17:47:35 EDT 2018
On 10/5/2018 4:48 PM, ts9564 at gmail.com wrote:
> I am new to Python programming but have significant SQL and C experience. My simple question is,"Why not standardize Python indentations to 3 spaces instead of 4 in order to avoid potential programming errors associated with using "TAB" instead of 4 spaces?"
IDLE (and other modern editors and IDEs) turns a typed TAB into a
user-settable n spaces, where n defaults to 4 (minimum 2, maximum 16).
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Terry Jan Reedy
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