Larry Wall's comment on python...

Kow Kuroda kkuroda at crl.ucsd.edu
Fri Sep 20 02:00:26 EDT 2002


On Thursday, September 19, 2002, at 09:32 PM, Courageous wrote:

>
>> Well, Python code may look awkward --- if not awk-like ---
>> if you don't know how to customize the tab width in your
>> editor of choice.
>
> Well, there's your problem already. One should use spaces
> and not tabs in Python code. Otherwise, any python file where
> tabs and spaces are mixed is also a choice of which indentation
> level other viewers of the code MUST use in their editors. That's
> heinous.

Well, that's not my job; it's the job of tabnanny.py.

Kow





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