In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matimus wrote: > On Jul 24, 9:32 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > >> In message >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> Matimus wrote: >> >> > On Jul 24, 2:54 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: >> >> In message >> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> >> >> Matimus wrote: >> >> > That isn't the standard. With that setup tabs will show up as 4 >> >> > spaces, and still confuse you. >> >> >> Why should that be confusing? The most common tab-stop setting is 4 >> >> columns. >> >> > A tab character is specified as 8 spaces. >> >> Specified by whom? The most common setting these days is 4 columns. > > All argument about specification aside, Python interprets a tab > character as equivalent to 8 spaces. If you are treating tabs as > equivalent to 4 spaces in your python code it will cause > IndentationError exceptions to be raised.
I have Emacs configured to show tabs as 4 columns wide, and I've never had such an exception happen in my Python code as a result. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
