"Alf P. Steinbach" <al...@start.no> writes: > Just trying to delve into the CPython source code. > > Pleasant surprise: while e.g. the gcc compiler is written in K&R C > (1975 style C), CPython seems to be written in almost modern C (1989 > and on). > > But, hey, TABS used for indenting, combined haphazardly and randomly > with SPACES used for indenting, in the same source files... > > The size-8 tabs look really bad in an editor configured with tab size > 4, as is common in Windows.
Then you are either used a broken editor or a misconfigured editor. I've used TextPad for ages, and it can be configured to hard tab 8 (might even be the default [1]). [1] With Perl coding I configured it to indent 4 spaces, hard tab 4 spaces and convert hard tabs to 4 spaces while saving, so no surprises. -- John Bokma j3b Hacking & Hiking in Mexico - http://johnbokma.com/ http://castleamber.com/ - Perl & Python Development -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list