OT: Vertical Tab was Re: indendation question

[Samuel Walters]

|Thus Spake Peter Hansen On the now historical date of Mon, 05 Jan 2004
17:43:15 -0500|
> Well, *almost* any whitespace. :-)
> 
>>>> import string
>>>> string.whitespace
> '\t\n\x0b\x0c\r '
> 
> Of those, only '\t' and ' ' are going to be much help, I think, when
> trying to indent.  Linefeed, carriage return, vertical tab, and form
> feed are most likely not well supported yet. ;-)

What exactly *is* a vertical tab?  I don't think I've ever seen it on a
keyboard or used in the wild.  I think I may have seen it on the
keybindings for a mainframe terminal I once used, but I didn't really dig
too deep because, as far as operating the mainframe was concerned, I was a
well trained monkey who could check and restart failed jobs.

Inquiring minds want to know.

Sam Walters

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