[Tutor] usage difference between tabs and spaces

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Thank you and everybody else for the reply.

I am using pycharm and i have found the way to produce four spaces for 
single tab key press.


George



On 10-Sep-14 2:32 AM, Danny Yoo wrote:
>> I am not an advanced programmer, but am very good with keyboard and find
>> using tabs for syntax and formatting very helpful. But in this list and
>> other python documentation i have repeatedly seen people recommending
>> use of spaces.
>
>
> Usually, you want to match the style used by the majority of the
> community.  According to the community PEP-8:
>
>      http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#tabs-or-spaces
>
> it's spaces, and in particular, four spaces:
>
>      http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#indentation
>
> The overriding reason, as I understand it, is not technical, but
> rather social: influential folks used that indentation level, the
> style spread, and the community generally followed that style.  Now
> it's the majority.
>
>
> There is value in coming to terms with this: there are bigger, more
> important issues out there.
>
> Like big-endian vs little-endian.  :P
>
>
>> I know that i can use any of them and use tabs as my preference.  But i
>> would like to understand why hitting the poor keyboard 4/8/12 times is
>> preferred than just hitting it 1/2/3 times.
>
> You can use an editor that will do the right thing, but still let you
> use your tab key the way you want.  What editor are you using now?
>
>
> Best of wishes!
>

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