On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 08:39, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > I have reluctantly come to do the same thing. There is a plethora of broken > tools out there that don't handle tabs well, and consequently even though > tabs for indentation are objectively better, I use spaces because it is > less worse than the alternative. > > Victory of worse-is-better. Here too. I prefer the 8-space tabs for the simplicity of the input method. (even while deleting 1 keystroke will do)
> > > [...] > > | Some would argue that allowing both tabs and spaces is freedom, > > | however this line of reasoning is flawed. Allowing a programmer to > > | format his code in way he pleases is bad, bad, bad. As a member of a > > | community we must all format our code in the same manner. > > > > This leads me to think you're just trolling. > > Slow learner, huh? :) > > I'm not sure which is worse... that Rick is trolling, and we still give him > the attention he craves, or that he honestly believes this crap. > > I suspect the later. I get the impression that he genuinely has so little > self-awareness that he doesn't notice that for all his talk about FREEDOM, > he's constantly trying to deny it to others by forcing them to do what he > wants them to do. (denying others freedom) Ha that he is. But given, i sometimes do go into these phases (complete and utter lack of self-awareness) i am not complaining... Despite all of that, i do believe it will be for the greater good, if all of us *decide* to use 8-space tabs. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
