Python indentation (3 spaces)

[Peter J. Holzer]

On 2018-10-15 14:12:54 +0200, Antoon Pardon wrote:
> On 13-10-18 09:37, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> > On 2018-10-09 09:55:34 +0200, Antoon Pardon wrote:
> >> On 08-10-18 19:43, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> >>> In practice it doesn't work in my experience. There is always someone in
> >>> a team who was "just testing that new editor" and replaced all tabs
> >>> with spaces (or vice versa) or - worse - just some of them.
> >> Isn't that caugth in the process of commiting to version control?
> > Tabs are easy to catch. If a file contains a tab, reject it.
> >
> > Spaces aren't, because spaces are everywhere.
> 
> Spaces that replaced a tab by accident, are easy to catch too. They are all
> those lines that show up when you do a diff with the previous version that
> shouldn't show up.

And where is the AI that decides which lines in a diff are should show
up?

Whether a line in a diff should or should not show up seems to me to be
even harder to determine than whether a tab fits the syntax. 

        hp

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