On 4/28/2014 7:13 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu <mailto:tjre...@udel.edu>> wrote:I don't think anyone should write code with variable width fonts, The problem is that fixed pitch does not work well for even a half-way complete unicode font and I don't know that there are any available. ... Given that PEP8 generally disallows adding spaces to make things line up, as in the following (a style I used to adhere to) a = 134543344 # big number bonge = 2 # short number Is ironic that that looks like hell in my variable-width font email client?
I believe that has been given as a reason to not do what I used to do. The only things guaranteed to actually line up are the initial graphic characters of lines with the exact same indent.
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