Re: Tab indentions on different platforms?

2008-01-02 Thread Ben Finney
Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:17:54 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > > Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> [...] the width of a tab is nowhere defined. It really is a matter of > >> the editor's settings. > > > > RFC 678 "Standard File Formats

Re: Tab indentions on different platforms?

2008-01-02 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:17:54 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> [...] the width of a tab is nowhere defined. It really is a matter of >> the editor's settings. > > RFC 678 "Standard File Formats" > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc678.txt>: Dated 19 December

Re: Tab indentions on different platforms?

2008-01-01 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Ben Finney writes: > Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> [...] the width of a tab is nowhere defined. It really is a >> matter of the editor's settings. > > RFC 678 "Standard File Formats" > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc678.txt>: > > Horizontal Tab > > [...] As f

Re: Tab indentions on different platforms?

2008-01-01 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Ben Finney writes: > Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> [...] the width of a tab is nowhere defined. It really is a >> matter of the editor's settings. > > RFC 678 "Standard File Formats" > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc678.txt>: > > Horizontal Tab > > [...] As f

Re: Tab indentions on different platforms?

2008-01-01 Thread Ben Finney
Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] the width of a tab is nowhere defined. It really is a matter > of the editor's settings. RFC 678 "Standard File Formats" http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc678.txt>: Horizontal Tab Moves the printer to the next horizontal tab st

Re: Tab indentions on different platforms?

2008-01-01 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Ben Finney writes: > Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> [...] >> >> There's a very good reason to buck the trend whenever practical: >> tabs have the considerable benefit that they decouple the >> presentation of the code from the structure of the code. > > Huh? I can onl

Re: Tab indentions on different platforms?

2008-01-01 Thread Ben Finney
Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:36:11 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > > Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:41:09 +, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > >> > >> > Anyway: the consequence of your well done argumentation is that >

Re: Tab indentions on different platforms?

2008-01-01 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Steven D'Aprano writes: > [...] > > Ah, and now we're getting somewhere! It's not so much that tabs > are intrinsically harmful (as people like Thorsten keep > insisting), but that in a world supposedly dominated by people who > indent with spaces, using tabs might lead to inconsiderat

Re: Tab indentions on different platforms?

2008-01-01 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:36:11 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:41:09 +, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >> >> > Anyway: the consequence of your well done argumentation is that >> > someone editing Python code has to use a specialised edi

Re: Tab indentions on different platforms?

2007-12-31 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Steven D'Aprano (Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:05:15 -) > On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:41:09 +, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > Anyway: the consequence of your well done argumentation is that > > someone editing Python code has to use a specialised editor to prevent > > screwing up tab indented code - and that

Re: Tab indentions on different platforms?

2007-12-31 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Steven D'Aprano (Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:28:50 -) > On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:33:19 +, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > * Steven D'Aprano (Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:37:32 -) > >> On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:29:25 +, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > >> > I'd personally go for spaces because: > >> > > >> > 1. I don

Re: Tab indentions on different platforms?

2007-12-30 Thread Ben Finney
Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:41:09 +, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > > Anyway: the consequence of your well done argumentation is that > > someone editing Python code has to use a specialised editor to prevent > > screwing up tab indented code - and that's b

Re: Tab indentions on different platforms?

2007-12-30 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:41:09 +, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > Anyway: the consequence of your well done argumentation is that > someone editing Python code has to use a specialised editor to prevent > screwing up tab indented code - and that's bad. You just need to use an editor that inserts tab ch

Re: Tab indentions on different platforms?

2007-12-30 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:33:19 +, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * Steven D'Aprano (Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:37:32 -) >> On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:29:25 +, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >> > I'd personally go for spaces because: >> > >> > 1. I don't like things I cannot see (control characters) >> >> You can

Re: Tab indentions on different platforms?

2007-12-30 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Ben Finney (Sun, 30 Dec 2007 15:36:12 +1100) > Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:29:25 +, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > > I'd personally go for spaces because: > > > > > > 1. I don't like things I cannot see (control characters) > > > > You can see spaces bu

Re: Tab indentions on different platforms?

2007-12-30 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Steven D'Aprano (Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:37:32 -) > On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:29:25 +, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > I'd personally go for spaces because: > > > > 1. I don't like things I cannot see (control characters) > > You can see spaces but not tabs? Your editor is pretty weird. In all the

Re: Tab indentions on different platforms?

2007-12-29 Thread John Machin
On Dec 30, 3:48 pm, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > * xkenneth (Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:51:04 -0800 (PST)) > >> I seem to be having problems with running my python code, written on > >> a Mac, on Linux and Windows boxes. > > > You seem to have problems or you do have p

Re: Tab indentions on different platforms?

2007-12-29 Thread John Nagle
Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * xkenneth (Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:51:04 -0800 (PST)) >> I seem to be having problems with running my python code, written on >> a Mac, on Linux and Windows boxes. > > You seem to have problems or you do have problems? > >> It seems like the problem has to do with tab indenti

Re: Tab indentions on different platforms?

2007-12-29 Thread Ben Finney
Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:29:25 +, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > > I'd personally go for spaces because: > > > > 1. I don't like things I cannot see (control characters) > > You can see spaces but not tabs? Your editor is pretty weird. In all > the edi

Re: Tab indentions on different platforms?

2007-12-29 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:29:25 +, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > I'd personally go for spaces because: > > 1. I don't like things I cannot see (control characters) You can see spaces but not tabs? Your editor is pretty weird. In all the editors I've every used, both spaces and tabs show up as empty

Re: Tab indentions on different platforms?

2007-12-29 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* xkenneth (Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:51:04 -0800 (PST)) > I seem to be having problems with running my python code, written on > a Mac, on Linux and Windows boxes. You seem to have problems or you do have problems? > It seems like the problem has to do with tab indention, Why does it seem and what do

Re: Tab indentions on different platforms?

2007-12-28 Thread John Machin
On Dec 29, 9:51 am, xkenneth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I seem to be having problems with running my python code, written > on a Mac, on Linux and Windows boxes. So *what* problems do you seem to be having? More to the the point, what problems are you *actually* having? > It seems like the

Tab indentions on different platforms?

2007-12-28 Thread xkenneth
All, I seem to be having problems with running my python code, written on a Mac, on Linux and Windows boxes. It seems like the problem has to do with tab indention, particularly I've noticed that my code will completely ignore try statements. Has anyone had a similar problem? Regards, Ken --