Non-Indented python

Peter Hansen peter at engcorp.com
Wed Nov 28 18:47:58 EST 2001


Jeff Shannon wrote:
> 
> Huaiyu Zhu wrote:
> 
> > An easy and brutal solution is to mandate that tab is the only indent
> > charactor.  A better long term solution is to write a smarter
> > python-mode for your editor.
> 
> An easier and less brutal solution is to mandate that space is the only
> indent character.  It's easier to teach your editor to convert tabs to
> spaces as you type them, than it is to teach every single person who might
> ever want to write a short Python script that spaces don't work.

I believe I like this approach a lot.  Anyone know how to 
run a script on cvs checkin to reject .py files containing
tabs?

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