On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Christian Gelinek <cgeli...@radlogic.com.au> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a problem running some python program using version 2.6.4 (or version > 2.7.2, I tried both) from the Win7 command line - it never finishes due to > an infinite loop. The thing is, when I run the same program through Cygwin > which uses Python version 2.6.5, it exits the loop at some point. > > I came to try this after I realised that in some of the sources (it is a > rather big program using many source files, most of them being created by > others from a Linux environment), the indentation is mixed tabs/spaces where > the assumed tab size is 8 spaces.
That's just plain evil. > Reading on the Python website, a tab size of 8 is default anyway, so I would > have assumed it should work... does that mean that one tab equals 2 > indents?!? I myself never use tabs to indent Python code but let my editor > do a tab-to-4-spaces conversion when I press <TAB>. > > I find it at least confusing to read that Python expects a tab size of 8 but > at the same time uses 4 spaces for one indent level. Or maybe I am > completely on the wron track here? 4-space indents are /recommended/ by PEP 8, but the interpreter does not require or prefer that style. What the interpreter does when parsing indentation is rather more complicated; see http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#indentation You might wanna look at tabnanny: http://docs.python.org/library/tabnanny.html Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
