On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Perhaps it would be nice if Python honoured a directive setting indent > style to spaces or indents, as it honours source code encoding lines: > > # -*- indent: <mode> -*- > > Where <mode> could be one of: > > space[s] Only accept spaces in indentation > tab[s] Only accept tabs in indentation > mixed Accept "mixed" tabs and spaces, but only if consistent > > with mixed the default for backward compatibility.
I don't know that it needs to be a declaration like that; character encodings are critical to parsing the file, but newline-followed-by-tab and newline-followed-by-space are unambiguous. But it would be of value to have something like that, as editors could then be configured to respect it - set the editor to turn tab-key into N spaces but only if "indent tab" is not set, for instance. The question is, is it worth it? The main value would be when you're editing someone else's code. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
