On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 7:41 AM, <terminato...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello > > I just tried python 3.3 with some simple script meant for unit test. > > How can python authors be so arrogant to impose their tabs and spaces > options on me ? It should be my choice if I want to use tabs or not ! > > Don't like it? Use ruby.
> I know people have all goten into this frenzy of using either tabs, either > spaces for indentation, but using a hard-tab of 8 spaces and a soft tab of > 4 spaces has worked fine long before python 3 showed up. > > And if they decided to throw a TabError, they should have at least created > an option to specify tab size, so I can work around that. > > I am aware that so many editors use a tab stop of 4 spaces instead of 8 > (which by the way started as a cheap way to work around their initial lack > of a "soft tab stop" option, and then was kept at 4 for "compatibility"). > But the rest of us who always use a tab stop of 8 should not be forced to > change preferences because python reached version 3. > > Timothy Madden > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- "The UNIX system has a command, nice ... in order to be nice to the other users. Nobody ever uses it." - Andrew S. Tanenbaum
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