On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > Guido van Rossum <guido <at> python.org> writes: >> >> I think we should not do this. We should use 4 space indents for new >> files, but existing files should not be reindented. > > Well, right now many files are indented with a mix of spaces and tabs, > depending > on who did the edit and how their editor was configured at the time.
That's a shame. We used to have more rigorous standards than allowing that. > Perhaps a graceful policy would be to mandate that all new edits be made with > spaces without touching other functions in the file. Then hopefully the code > base would gradually converge to a tabless scheme. I don't think so. I find local consistency more important than global consistency. A file can become really hard to read when different indentation schemes are used in random parts of the code. If you have a problem configuring your editor, just say so and someone will explain how to do it. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
