On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> wrote:
> Well to some extent because I share files with > another who uses 4 position tabs. Editing these is a real nightmare if > one uses 8 position tabs (as I do, the common editor/terminal default > these days). 8's been the default in pretty much everything for as long as I can remember. > For pure indentation you may get sane (if wider that liked) > results, bit any multicolumn stuff is badly broken by the mismatch. > That's why you use tabs before your commands, spaces after your commands - if you insist on putting comments on the same line as a command. It's also why it's better to put comments on lines by themselves, rather than tacking them onto the end of something else.
-- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list