On Friday, February 7, 2014 12:30:17 AM UTC+2, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 9:09 AM, Larry Martell <lar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The Tab key is not evil, it's the tab character (Ctrl-I). I have been > > bitten by this many time when I had to work on a program written by > > another. They had their tab stops set at 5 or 6, mine is set at 4, or > > they did not have expandtab set, but I did. So you get either a script > > that looks misaligned, but works, or one that does not look misaligned > > but doesn't work. When I have to pick up someone else's script the > > first thing I do is replace the tabs with spaces. > > All you've proven is that *mixing* spaces and tabs is evil. It's like > arguing that oil is evil because, when you mix it with water, weird > stuff happens. But that doesn't mean I want to fry my bacon in water. > Mmm, bacon. > Sorry. I'm back now. Ahem. Arguably, a better fix is to replace spaces > with tabs, because they're more obvious. But mainly, just be > consistent. Whatever one file uses, it uses exclusively. It'd be > pretty easy to create a git commit hook that checks files for leading > indentation and rejects the commit if it's mismatched; I would guess > the same is true in Mercurial. > > But none of this would solve the OP's original issue. Whether it's a > tab or spaces, unexpectedly indenting a line of code is a problem. > It's no different from accidentally hitting Ctrl-T in SciTE and > reordering two lines, when one line depends on the other. It's a bug. > So you look at your commits before you make them (to give yourself a > chance to catch it quickly), and you make sure you can always look > back over your commits (in case you didn't catch it quickly). Much > better than blaming the characters involved. Poor innocent U+0009. > ChrisA
pep8 pushed \t to dark side in Python. though it is better that spaces sometimes. let say someone's indented code with 2 spaces and user is comfortable with 4. if \t then it is done by editor's conf without touching code. /Asaf -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
