do people really complain about significant whitespace?

[Carl Banks]

gslindstrom at gmail.com wrote:
> Carl Banks wrote:
> > Although Python doesn't do this, it is possible to mandate a specific
> > indent (4 spaces, say), or at least a reasonable consistent indent  <snip>
>
> I like running reindent.py (found in your Python source directory under
> Tools/Scripts) which cleans up indentations, trailing whitespace, and
> other things.  We run our entire source directory through reindent
> before we check it into our library.  A very nice routine courtesy of
> Tim Peters, I believe.

The very fact the code reindenters exist should tell you that fixed
indent is superior. :)


Carl Banks