Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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On Jul 24, 9:32 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Matimus wrote:
On Jul 24, 2:54 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
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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.
I have no Emacs experience -- does it actually put tabs in the file, or
spaces?
~Ethan~
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