[Python-ideas] mixing tabs and spaces

[Guido van Rossum]

There is a simpler solution. Just don't use tabs.

On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was noticing the complaint about mixing tabs and spaces on python.general
> list.  It occurs to me, that a simple solution would be to allow a comment at
> the top of the file to specify a tab-space equivalency.
>
> something similar to the coding magic comment:
> # -*- coding: <encoding name> -*-
>
> Perhaps:
>
> # -*- tab: 8 -*-
>
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