In message <slrnid9ln8.30fm.usenet-nos...@guild.seebs.net>, Seebs wrote:
> 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... Whereas explicitly-bracketed languages leave no ambiguity about how many brackets you need and where. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list