I hate you all

[Dylan Evans]

On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 7:41 AM, <terminatorul at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello
>
> I just tried python 3.3 with some simple script meant for unit test.
>
> How can python authors be so arrogant to impose their tabs and spaces
> options on me ? It should be my choice if I want to use tabs or not !
>
>
Don't like it? Use ruby.



> I know people have all goten into this frenzy of using either tabs, either
> spaces for indentation, but using a hard-tab of 8 spaces and a soft tab of
> 4 spaces has worked fine long before python 3 showed up.
>
> And if they decided to throw a TabError, they should have at least created
> an option to specify tab size, so I can work around that.
>
> I am aware that so many editors use a tab stop of 4 spaces instead of 8
> (which by the way started as a cheap way to work around their initial lack
> of a "soft tab stop" option, and then was kept at 4 for "compatibility").
> But the rest of us who always use a tab stop of 8 should not be forced to
> change preferences because python reached version 3.
>
> Timothy Madden
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> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>



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users. Nobody ever uses it." - Andrew S. Tanenbaum
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