On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:41, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 01:52, Raymond Hettinger <pyt...@rcn.com> wrote: >>> From: "M.-A. Lemburg" <m...@egenix.com> >>>> >>>> The question to put up against this is: How often do you get >>>> irritated by lines not being correctly indented ? >>> >>> Basically never. >> >> And of course I am the polar opposite: frequently enough that I want >> to see this fixed. > > I'm in the middle -- I don't mind so much if some parts of a file are > indented using a different style than other parts. But I am adamant > that local misalignment is horrible. Since mixing tabs and spaces > within one function is bound to lead to local misalignments (either > for the folks who set their tabs at 4 or for the folks who set them at > 8, as God intended), I want at least within each function the > indentation to be all spaces or all tabs. (And yes, the convention of > implementing 4-position indents using tabs followed by 4 spaces for > odd indents is evil, as it looks horrible for folks whose tabs are set > to 4.) >
Can we then all agree that a policy of re-indenting per function as changes are made to the code is acceptable but not required? -Brett _______________________________________________ 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
