So many things that need to be decided....

Mike Meyer mwm at mired.org
Fri May 6 00:09:41 EDT 2005


Nick Vargish <nav+posts at bandersnatch.org> writes:

> Mage <mage at mage.hu> writes:
>
>> - identing with tabs
>
> Indenting with tabs is pretty much frowned upon in Python, as Guido
> relates in PEP 8:
>
> http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0008.html
>
> I guess it doesn't matter much if you are the only person who will
> ever touch your code, and you never, ever, accidentally mix spaces and
> tabs...

What the OP probably meant was that the development environment
inserts the appropriate number of spaces when you hit the tab key. I'd
hate to work on Python - or in any group development environment -
where that wasn't the case.

            <mike
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