On Nov 28, 8:49 pm, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:54 AM, DevPlayer <devpla...@gmail.com> wrote: > > To me, I would think the interpreter finding the coder's intended > > indent wouldn't be that hard. And just make the need for consistant > > spaces or tabs irrevelent simply by reformatting the indent as > > expected. Pretty much all my text editors can. > > The trouble with having a language declaration that "a tab is > equivalent to X spaces" is that there's no consensus as to what X > should be. Historically X has always been 8, and quite a few programs > still assume this. I personally like 4. Some keep things narrow with > 2. You can even go 1 - a strict substitution of \t with \x20. Once you > declare it in your language, you immediately break everyone who uses > anything different. > > ChrisA
Yeah. We must remember the Unix users, espcially those who don't know how to hack Vim or bash. I've decided not to require a specific number of spaces. I am still teetering on whether to allow tabs. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list