Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com>: > You can use tabs *or* spaces. If you want to mix the two, then there > would need to be some official decision made about how many spaces > compose a tab, and then everybody who wants to use tabs would have to > configure their editors to conform to that decision, or risk breaking > their code. Some people like to indent two spaces. Some people like to > indent four spaces. On the other hand, the de facto standard for > terminal tab width is eight spaces. However, virtually nobody prefers > eight spaces of indentation. So the question is which standard are you > going to adopt, and which groups are you going to upset?
Indentation preferences and the interpretation of TABs are two separate things. For example, in the default emacs configuration, the C indentation levels go like this: SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC TAB TAB SPC SPC etc. The TAB *key* is a command that makes emacs indent with a mix of spaces and TABs. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
