On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:56:35 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Wells <we...@submute.net> writes: > >> Is it... pythonic, then, to have these lines of tabs/spaces to support >> code collapsing? Is it proper, improper, or irrelevant? > > It's quite improper (though syntactically null, in Python) to have > trailing whitespace on lines. That includes blank lines.
Blank lines are far from improper in Python, they're recommended by PEP 8. > One major reason is that trailing whitespace causes spurious invisible > differences between otherwise-identical lines when doing an automatic > comparison, which is done quite a lot in collaboration and version > control. Then you need better comparison software that doesn't give so many false matches due to insignificant differences. > Fix your text editor (which may entail switching to a better text > editor) to respect blank lines and the conventions of the language. Yes, if the editor's handling of code collapsing is broken, it needs to be fixed, or replaced. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
