Python handles globals badly.

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>:
>
>> Personally, I like to use tab characters for indentation. You can
>> choose how many pixels or ems or ens or spaces the actual visual shift
>> is, and if I disagree with your choice, it won't affect anything. As
>> long as tabs are used _exclusively_, Python won't be bothered by it
>> either.
>
> Your preferred, novel usage of TABs, which runs counter to the age-old
> programming convention, has won enough supporters to make TABs unusable.
>
> No harm done. TABs have been banished. They were a bad idea in the first
> place.

I don't understand. How does that usage run counter to the old
conventions? A tab character, a press of the tab key, was a signal to
move to the next logical column - regardless of the exact width of a
column. It's also completely compatible with the stricter rule "a tab
is equivalent to eight spaces".

ChrisA