On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 01:30:45 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Am I the only one here who has used a typewriter? > > Tab stops were set manually, to a physical distance into the page, using > a mechanical stop. This long predates the "rule" that tab stops are every > 8 characters.
And your point is? Typewriters don't have a tab "character". The information regarding tab stops is conveyed out-of-band from the typist to the typewriter, and doesn't need to persist beyond the time taken to type the document. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
