* Andrew Berg (Sun, 17 Jul 2011 03:36:31 -0500) > Not everyone agrees on how many spaces an indent should be (whether an > indent is a tab or a space-tab), which is a good reason to use tabs.
Not everyone who doesn't agree on indent size actually cares enough about indent size - especially in someone else's code. I'd say it's probably rather the majority making this whole debate artificial. I like my indent four spaces. If you like eight, wonderful, I don't care, it's your code. If I want to use your code in my own, I completely have to reformat your code anyway. And if we work on a project together, we have to agree on formatting anyway, the indent size being the least important one. This whole debate is artificial. > Using tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment solves the > problem. I really can't think of any problems this would cause that > aren't superficial. Sorry, you didn't understand my point. My point is: the distinction between indentation and alignment is superficial. Indentation /is/ exactly the same as alignment. Thorsten -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
