On 20.03.2011 18:05, s...@pobox.com wrote:
> 
>     Ben> Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> writes:
>     >> As a side note, if you are prone to accidentally adding extra
>     >> whitespace (like I am), you can add the whitespace check hook into
>     >> your local copy of Mercurial so that you will be warned about
>     >> whitespace problems immediately when you commit things to your local
>     >> repos rather than later when you try to push them up to the
>     >> python.org repo.
> 
>     Ben> Even earlier that the attempt to commit, one can configure the text
>     Ben> editor to show whitespace in order to be aware of it at the point
>     Ben> where it's easiest to change:
> 
>     ...
> 
> I wasn't aware that TABs were verboten in .rst files.  If svn was configured
> to reject TABs I simply never stumbled on it with my edits.  I did some
> searching but found nothing in the dev guide to suggest there were any
> restrictions on the whitespace in .rst files.  Now that I know, it's not
> difficult to avoid.

I probably thought it would be obvious, since reST relies on structural
indentation just like Python.  I've now added this in "Documenting Python".

cheers,
Georg


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