Using the Python Interpreter as a Reference

Rick Johnson rantingrickjohnson at gmail.com
Sat Nov 26 16:15:57 EST 2011


On Nov 26, 1:34 pm, Chris Angelico <ros... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Rick Johnson
>
> <rantingrickjohn... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I hope you meant to say "*forced* indention for code blocks"! "Forced"
> > being the key word here. What about tabs over spaces, have you decided
> > the worth of one over the other or are you going to repeat Guido's
> > folly?
>
> I recommend demanding that indentation strictly alternate tabs or
> spaces in successive non-blank lines.

Funny.

> Comment-only lines must be
> identical to the immediately-preceding line.

...as in "indentation" you mean, then yes. OR suffer the syntax error.

> A tab is equivalent to
> seven spaces.

...as for "the litmus test of stdlib code" you mean, then yes. OR
suffer the syntax error.



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