i guess i'll use spaces for my next program. But why exactly are spaces better? the article just said that was the standard
--- On Tue, 5/19/09, Lorenz Quack <d...@amberfisharts.com> wrote: From: Lorenz Quack <d...@amberfisharts.com> Subject: Re: [SPAM: 3.500] Re: [pygame] This one baffles me To: pygame-users@seul.org Date: Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 5:01 PM You should use 4 spaces and no tabs. The only exception is when you are modifying old files that already are using tabs. new files should use 4 spaces per indentation level. You can read up on this kind of stuff in the python style guide: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ yours //Lorenz Yanom Mobis wrote: > umm... well i got my editor to display spaces and tabs differently (tabs with > an arrow) so i can see where i've accidentally used spaces. > > thanks anyway > > --- On *Mon, 5/18/09, Nicholas Dudfield /<ndudfi...@gmail.com>/* wrote: > > > From: Nicholas Dudfield <ndudfi...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [SPAM: 3.500] Re: [pygame] This one baffles me > To: pygame-users@seul.org > Date: Monday, May 18, 2009, 9:12 AM > > jug wrote: > > I think you forgot the newline: > > .replace("\n"+" "*4, "\n\t") > > > No cigar... not even close... > > from __future__ import with_statement > > with open ('perforce_plugin.py', 'r+w') as fh: > fixed_tabs = fh.read().expandtabs(4) > fh.seek(0) > fh.write(fixed_tabs) > > *expandtabs*(s, tabsize=8) > expandtabs > <http://pydoc.org/1.6/string.html#-expandtabs>(s [,tabsize]) -> > string > Return a copy of the string s with all tab characters replaced > by the appropriate number of spaces, depending on the current > column, and the tabsize (default 8). > > >
