Python handles globals badly.

[Rustom Mody]

On Friday, September 11, 2015 at 10:04:25 AM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Ian Kelly :
> 
> > You can use tabs *or* spaces. If you want to mix the two, then there
> > would need to be some official decision made about how many spaces
> > compose a tab, and then everybody who wants to use tabs would have to
> > configure their editors to conform to that decision, or risk breaking
> > their code. Some people like to indent two spaces. Some people like to
> > indent four spaces. On the other hand, the de facto standard for
> > terminal tab width is eight spaces. However, virtually nobody prefers
> > eight spaces of indentation. So the question is which standard are you
> > going to adopt, and which groups are you going to upset?
> 
> Indentation preferences and the interpretation of TABs are two separate
> things.

Required reading
http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html