Python indentation (3 spaces)

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 9:06 AM Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:
>
> Thomas Jollans <tjol at tjol.eu>:
>
> > On 08/10/2018 08:31, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> >> Where I work (and at home), the only control character that is allowed
> >> in source code is LF.
> >
> > No tolerance for form feeds?
>
> None whatsoever.
>
> CR is ok but only if immediately followed by BEL. That way typing source
> code gives out the air of an old typewriter.
>
> Highlighting keywords with ANSI escape sequences can also be rather
> cute.
>

Bah, you're missing out on so much fun by banning control characters.
Inserting a "cursor up one line" character in the middle of a quoted
string makes typing source code ever so much more exciting! Especially
if you carefully engineer it so it gently changes a few variable
names...

ChrisA