Deprecate tabs for indenting (was Re: Indenting with tabs vs spaces)

[Steve Lamb]

On Tue, 04 Dec 2001 08:25:23 GMT, Erik de Castro Lopo <nospam at mega-nerd.com>
wrote:
> Easy. Tabs everywhere:
 
> some_dict = {
> 	'Jane':{'Age':'21', 'Dept':'0001', 'Ext':'1234'},
> 	'John':{'Age':'22', 'Dept':'0010', 'Ext':'5678'},
> 	'Jeff':{'Age':'23', 'Dept':'0100', 'Ext':'9009'},
> 	'Jody':{'Age':'24', 'Dept':'1000', 'Ext':'8765'},
> 	'Jeny':{'Age':'25', 'Dept':'0110', 'Ext':'4321'}
> 	}
 
> Beautiful!!!!
 
    Uh, no, rather nasty in fact.  Face it, that's the one case where tabs
fail and is so common as to prevent tabs from being ever used in code.

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