pylint: don't warn about tabs

[Colin J. Williams]

Ben Finney wrote:
> Bjoern Schliessmann <usenet-mail-0306.20.chr0n0ss at spamgourmet.com> writes:
> 
>> Alan Isaac wrote:
>>> As a tab user, I want the tabs warning turned off.
>> Advice: Don't.
> 
> Agreed. Sticking to spaces for indentation avoids the ambiguity of
> interpretation that ASCII TAB characters are subject to. In addition,
> PEP 8 (which many people consider a strong suggestion for a style
> guide for all Python code) recommends four space characters for
> indentation.
For those who prefer say 3 or 8, pylint permits this to be specified in 
the configuration file.

Colin W.
> 
>> IIRC it's planned in future Python versions that TABs aren't
>> supported for indentation.
> 
> I've not seen such plans, can you support that?
> 
> If you're thinking of this post from Guido, please note the date it
> was made:
> 
>     <URL:http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=101968>
>