On Feb 6, 9:31 pm, "Alf P. Steinbach" <al...@start.no> wrote: > Just trying to delve into the CPython source code. > > Pleasant surprise: while e.g. the gcc compiler is written in K&R C (1975 style > C), CPython seems to be written in almost modern C (1989 and on). > > But, hey, TABS used for indenting, combined haphazardly and randomly with > SPACES > used for indenting, in the same source files... > > The size-8 tabs look really bad in an editor configured with tab size 4, as is > common in Windows. I'm concluding that the CPython programmers configure their > Visual Studio's to *nix convention. Or perhaps modern Visual Studio has > default > tab size 8, it wouldn't surprise me (the best version was the MSVC 6.0 > Developer > Studio, since then that IDE has only gone downhill being re-based on the > Office > Assistant inspired "for dummies" IDE that Microsoft had for web designers). > > Anyways, I would suggest converting all those tabs to spaces, as e.g. the > Boost > library project does -- no tabs allowed. > > That's much more platform-independent. :-) > > Cheers, > > - Alf
So what's stopping you from doing this yourself? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
