On 2010-11-06, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:17:02 +0530, Rustom Mody wrote: >> 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? >> 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?
> Mixing spaces and tabs for indentation can be ambiguous. Specifically: Four spaces followed by a tab nearly always actually means "eight spaces" to most editors (and Python seems to treat it that way), but it's hard to tell. Worse, a tab may have been intended to be the same thing as four spaces, and someone was expecting it NOT to be the same as eight spaces... -s -- Copyright 2010, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / usenet-nos...@seebs.net http://www.seebs.net/log/ <-- lawsuits, religion, and funny pictures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) <-- get educated! I am not speaking for my employer, although they do rent some of my opinions. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
