On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 11:39:48 -0800, Kevin T wrote: > with other languages i always expand tabs to spaces. the vi plugin does > do this properly. if i change all indents to be spaces only will python > behave? i inherited a good deal of the code that i am using, which is > tab based.
Python will behave correctly if you use all spaces, or all tabs, for indents. If you mix spaces and tabs, anything can happen. For this reason, Python 3 is more strict and will raise an explicit error when it detects mixed spaces/tabs in an indent. See also the tabnanny tool provided with Python: [steve@ando ~]$ python -m tabnanny Usage: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/tabnanny.py [-v] file_or_directory ... -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
