[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Some recent posts about Python programming style got me thinking. > Since we have the PEP 8 which gives some guidelines about the style to > be used, do we have any program that can check for violations of these > guidelines within the source code? I understand that there are a lot > of code beautifiers out there, but i haven't seen one specially > tailored for Python... Is there even a desire in Python community for > a program like this (by Python community I mean the people in this > group:) ) ? I think it would be a nice little project for practice and > I'd like to do it, but if there is already something like this then I > can probably spend my time on something more productive. So, I'd like > to hear your opinion on this... > There is one thing that I don't understand about PEP 8 - why is using > spaces considered more desirable than using tabs for indentation? >
Pylint is one of them (http://www.logilab.org/857) With spaces you get always the same len of the line, where tabs can use 2,4,8 spaces, dependingt on the settings of the IDE Alexander -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list