Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info>: > * editors don't handle tabs correctly
But you said yourself: > I'm not sure there actually *is* such a thing as "default semantics" > for tabs. What is "correct" handling of ASCII TAB characters in a text file? The unix tradition is to let the TTY interpret the TABs. Utilities such as "ed", "cat", "diff" or "gcc" don't interpret or process TABs in any way but simply output them together with the rest of the text. And the TTY tradition is to have TAB stops at every 8 columns (by default). So this question has little to do with text editors except in that your editor should display your program roughly the same way as "lpr" prints it out. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
