[Pythonmac-SIG] Selecting in BBEdit & Python Indenting style(spaces)

[Louis Pecora]

Rob Managan wrote:

> Because in a mixed environment some one will take a file that has
>
>tabs and add spaces or vice versa. As soon as lines have a mixture of 
>tabs and spaces then the display does ugly things when you change 
>editors.
>
>I run into this all the time in C with those I develop with. We try 
>to keep it to spaces but some people forget that their editor puts in 
>a tab automatically for 8 spaces and then spaces after that to column 
>12 for example. Then my editor which sets tabs to 4 spaces has 
>indentation all messed up.
>  
>

But in C it doesn't matter for the code to compile and run.  C has block 
delimiters.  Python  does not and there's the rub.  I guess this is an 
old topic.  Frankly, I like Python's approach much better, but it is 
like, the good news is there are no block delimiters, the bad news is 
there are no block delimiters. 

I can live with that because the good news is better than the bad news 
is worse (does that make sense?  :-)   ).

My original question was just a version of, could Guido (blessed be the 
prophet's name) have done it better?  That's all.  I didn't want a flame 
war or the Spanish Inquisition.

Thanks.

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Lou Pecora

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