Python indentation (3 spaces)

[Rhodri James]

On 14/10/18 09:06, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> On 2018-10-14 00:45:49 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2018-10-13, Peter J. Holzer <hjp-python at hjp.at> wrote:
>>>
>>>> For "just use tabs" to work, all of those tools would have to
>>>> magically recognize that they're looking at Python source and adjust
>>>> the tab size accordingly.  That isn't going to happen.
>>>
>>> Well, no. The idea of "just use tabs" isn't have a different tab width
>>> per language, but a different tab width per user.
>>
>> You work in a different environment than I do.  for me, tab width
>> varies from one project to another (sometimes even in the same
>> language).  I don't get to pick just one tab width.
> 
> You probably don't because you use spaces, not tabs.
> 
> If everybody used tabs, why would anyone care about your tab width?
> Unless they look over your shoulder while you are typing, they won't
> even know how wide your tabs are.

If you used two-space tab stops and I used (the normal :-) eight, 
comfortable indentations for you would rapidly become uncomfortably 
large indentations for me.  I'd care about that.  I'd also care if you 
used spaces to make sub-tab stop adjustments to line up appropriate text 
(inside brackets, for example).

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Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd