Proposal: Official whitespace response

[Ken Seehof]

How about making tabs a syntax error in Python 2.0!

I've removed the tabs from my keyboard.

Is there a way to write a python function to switch between applications?  I
can't do Alt-Tab anymore cause I don't have a tab key.

- Ken

Tim Ottinger <tottinge at concentric.net> wrote in message
news:38b1a83b.25970002 at news.concentric.net...
> >Inbetween all the bickering, I got a lot of useful information.  It
> >would be nice to summarize these points in a succinct, factual manner.
>
> Would have been cool to get it without the bickering, though.
>
> >First and foremost, I did not find in the FAQ, or in any of my searching
> >around on www.python.org, or in any place in Mark Lutz's _Programming
> >Python_ that was clear from the TOC or index, or in the 1/3 of the tome
> >I've read so far, any sort of clue into the really incredibly obvious
> >question that is underneath all this: "How do you deal with tabs vs.
> >spaces?"
> >
> >I don't know why this is so hidden.  I think any reasonable FAQ on the
> >matter must state, in some obvious and up-front way THE PYTHON
> >INTERPRETER ALWAYS INTERPRETS A TAB AS 8 SPACES.  There was a quote from
> >Guido's guide to programming style (or something like that -- NOT the
> >first document I'd look at when trying to figure out how the dang thing
> >works) that was quite to the point somewhere in the responses to my post
> >that was quite to-the-point which I think you should probably use.
>
> Every non-M$ programmer I know sets tabs to 8 spaces, shifts/indents
> to 4, and most of them set whatever editor they use to write spaces
> rather than tabs.
>
> I do this in vim, M$ IDE (when forced to use it), and in all other
> editors I've ever used for code work. When you print text, it expands
> tabs to 8 chars normally, so most developers automagically (without
> thinking) either use 8-char tabs, or don't use them.
>
> I hate the little beasties, and am not so pressed for disk space that
> I'd use them to save 7 bytes each.
>
> So I think we all overlook the errors that we don't personally commit.
> That's just humanity, not pythonity. Who would have thought it?
>
> Tim