[Tutor] Re: tabs or spaces (the endless debate!)
Derrick 'dman' Hudson
dman@dman.ddts.net
Mon Feb 17 20:16:01 2003
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On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 01:30:30PM -0000, alan.gauld@bt.com wrote:
| > Because if you write your code to wrap at 79 chars (which is a good=20
| > idea for readability) then whether a tab is 4 or 8 chars matters (and=
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| > diff't environments use diff't sizes for tabs).
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| Absolutely. Also when you open code in an editor its not obvious=20
| whether the code is indented with tabs or spaces.
Sometimes it is too painfully obvious. :-).
In vim :
set lcs=3Dtab:>-
set list
Then tabs will appear as a blue '>' for the first character it
occupies followed by a blue '-' for each additional character the tab
occupies. The "painful" part comes when trying to read some
documentation where tabs are scattered throughout. Then I temporarily
":set nolist" to hide the tabs.
As with certain other aspects of python, the limitations are only in
your tool(s), not python itself.
-D
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