Should you use vi (vim) the following in your .vimrc file should display
tabs as 4 spaces and more importantly insert 4 spaces instead of a tab when
you hit the tab key.

set ts=4
set shiftwidth=4
set expandtab


On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Johnathan Corgan <
jcor...@corganenterprises.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 06:20, Tim Pearce <timothy.pea...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Checking it on my copy here it looks like the script is playing the
> > dangerous game of mixing tabs + spaces so the actual indentation you see
> on
> > your text editor depends on how it treats tabs. Whether it works or not
> then
> > depends on how python chooses to treat the tabs.
>
> I'll fess up to having committed such Python treachery by having made
> some of those edits using an editor that didn't handle space/tabs
> consistently.  I have since learned the error of my ways and have gone
> down the Emacs path to redemption :-)
>
> Seriously, though, it's one of the few downsides to Python, but an
> important one--multiple developers should standardize on an editor to
> avoid issues like this.  Most of the code in GNU Radio has been
> written in Emacs.
>
> Johnathan
>
>
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