[Tutor] Whitespace indentation

[Danny Yoo]

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Smith, Jeff wrote:

> On the indentation topic.  I would be curious to know if anyone has had
> an experience where a rogue process or editor has trashed the
> indentation in your Python and how you recovered from it.

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Hi Jeff,

I have run into some whitespace issues, but it had more to do with
line-ending terminators for code sent between Windows and Unix machines.
But that's more of a Unix vs. Windows thing than anything else.  *grin*


On the whole, though, using indentation as blocks has worked really well
for me, and hasn't been a liability.  I do try to keep my code backed by a
version control system like Subversion or CVS:

    http://subversion.tigris.org/
    https://www.cvshome.org/

which seems to keep me safe from my own incompetence most of the time.


Best of wishes to you!