Let's make Python really strict about indentation

[Alexis Layton]

Alexis Layton wrote:

> I'm starting to believe the only solution to the indentation "mixups" 
> that occur
> is to have Python become really strict about indentation, yet still 
> allow a mixture
> of spaces and tabs.
> 

My previous post still does not address one common use-case (the Unix 
editor case)
where tab-stops are 8 and indentation level is 4, where the following 
sequences
arise

SSSS
T
TSSSS
TT
TTSSSS
TTT

This pattern, as well as all common ones, can be addressed by defining
(for the purposes of lexical analysis of Python) that the tab stop is 
some sufficiently
large integer, say 256. Or one can use the algorithm described in my 
earlier post
but allow a single T to be more indentation than any number of Ss.

This would allow any internally consistent file to be parsed but 
disallow ad-hoc
mixtures of identation.

Alexis Layton