On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Timothy Madden <terminato...@gmail.com> wrote: > Changing the tab size from this default is what makes the code incompatible, > not the tabs themselves. So the solution is simple: do not change tab size > from the default.
So in other words, everybody must be forced to use 8-character tabs because you want to be able to mix tabs and spaces. > People say I can use tabs all the way, just set them to the indent I want. > > Well, I always had my indent independent of the tab size. Which is the way > it should be, after all, since one can indent with or without tabs, so > indent should not be tied to them. > > But now I can not; python no longer lets me do that. Honestly, I really don't understand why you *want* to do that. If your indentation is 4 characters, then that would be the natural tab width to use. If you're not going to tie your indent to your tabs, then why even use tabs in the first place? > The new rules may look flexible at first sight, but the net effect they have > is they push me to use non-default tab size (which is not good), What makes that not good? There is no law anywhere that says tabs are 8 characters. That's just an arbitrary amount that looked appropriate to the people designing the first teletypes. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
