TABS in the CPython C source code

[Alf P. Steinbach]

Just trying to delve into the CPython source code.

Pleasant surprise: while e.g. the gcc compiler is written in K&R C (1975 style 
C), CPython seems to be written in almost modern C (1989 and on).

But, hey, TABS used for indenting, combined haphazardly and randomly with SPACES 
used for indenting, in the same source files...

The size-8 tabs look really bad in an editor configured with tab size 4, as is 
common in Windows. I'm concluding that the CPython programmers configure their 
Visual Studio's to *nix convention. Or perhaps modern Visual Studio has default 
tab size 8, it wouldn't surprise me (the best version was the MSVC 6.0 Developer 
Studio, since then that IDE has only gone downhill being re-based on the Office 
Assistant inspired "for dummies" IDE that Microsoft had for web designers).

Anyways, I would suggest converting all those tabs to spaces, as e.g. the Boost 
library project does  --  no tabs allowed.

That's much more platform-independent. :-)


Cheers,

- Alf