On 2014-07-03 19:02, Grant Edwards wrote: > > That may be true, but that same person is going to have a > > difficult time editing the code. > > That's true with Notepad, but with dozens of other programming > editors, code indented with spaces will read and edit prefectly. > Not so for tab-indented code.
A broken editor isn't the world's best argument. If I used an editor that changed my line-endings, randomly altered arbitrary characters, or tried to compress multiple spaces into one, I'd complain that the editor was broken. If a file has tab characters and my editor doesn't let me properly deal with <tab> characters, then THE EDITOR IS BROKEN. That said, even though I'm "-0" on "use 4 spaces rather than tabs", I conform to the standard to reduce interop headache even if I'd rather use tabs. -tkc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
