Tabbing/Spaces

[Alex Martelli]

"Quinn Dunkan" <quinn at groat.ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote in message
news:slrn96ipbi.oul.quinn at groat.ugcs.caltech.edu...
> On 19 Jan 2001 16:17:13 -0800, Johann Hibschman
<johann at physics.berkeley.edu>
> wrote:
> >Shrug.  Whatever suits you best, I guess.  I just hate getting all-tab
> >code, since then I have to re-indent it for it to be readable.
> >All-space code, on the other hand, always looks fine.
>
> Unless you use proportional fonts.

The syntactically significant whitespace in Python is that from
the left margin and the first non-white character of each line.
_In this specific context_, use of proportional fonts is not an
issue: 'all-space code ... looks fine' regardless of that.


Alex