Hi, > Well all previous (python 2) code is meant to work for a tab size of > 8. yes, but even in Python 2, mixing spaces and tabs is considered bad style and should be avoided. And code-checkers like pylint (which I can recommend to everyone) create a warning.
> You may call this "categorically wrong", but it has been there a > long while, is is still in use, and it sticks to the default. As I said, mixing tabs and spaces for indentation was *always* a bad idea, and is discouraged also in Python 2. > Spaces-only can achieve compatibility between different people > settings for formatted text like source code. But so does a common > default for the tab size, But there's no such thing as "default tab size". Configuring the tab-size is quite common among programmers. But why do you insist on using tabs at all? The best way -- in my opinion -- is to use the tab- and backspace-key for indentation, and let the editor convert it to spaces. (And use some tool to convert all tabs in the old code.) I don't see *any* advantage of mixed spaces and tabs, but quite some disadvantages/problems. > What I would expect is some option in python to make tabs work the > way they used to. I want a choice for me to preserve my settings, > the same way you want to preserve yours. > > What I want should not be much to ask, since this is how python 2 > used to do things. > > I admit such a '--fixed-tabs' option, that will make tab stops be 8 > columns apart, and allow any number of spaces like in python 2, > makes the code I write dependent on that option. There's no need to add this to Python 3, since you already have what you want. Simply use: expand yourscript.py | python3 regards Roland -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
