On 04/05/2013 11:53 PM, Ian Kelly wrote: >> 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.
Ahh but assuming tabs are the equivalent of 8 spaces can save 7 bytes per tab character in the source code! Think of the savings. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
