On 11/4/2010 10:47 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
As far as I am concerned python would not be python if its
indentation=structure went. However the original question -- mixing
tabs and spaces is bad -- has got lost in the flames. Do the most
die-hard python fanboys deny this?
Of course not. Not mixing tabs and spaces has been the recommendation
for perhaps a decade.
And if not is it asking too much (say in python3) that mixing tabs and spaces
> be flagged as an error or at least warning?
Making all mixture an error was considered but rejected as causing too
much gratuitous breakage. One reason: you cut code from some source with
the 'other' style and paste into code with 'your' style. Should you be
*forced* (rather than merely advised) to convert before running the
result even once. Guido decided that there was enough breakage from
important things like unicode text and all new-style classes.
On the other hand, someone said that ambiguous mixtures now are prohibited.
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