On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Pete Forman <petef4+use...@gmail.com> wrote: > Why is it that Python continues to use a fixed width font and therefore > specifies the maximum line width as a character count? > > An essential part of the language is indentation which ought to continue > to mandate that lines start with a multiple of 4 em worth of space (or > some other size or encode with hard tabs, that is not germane to my > question). The content of the line need not be bound by the rules needed > to position its start.
How many spaces is "4 em worth"? How would you incorporate that into the Python compiler or a linter without needing to know what particular font the programmer is using? What happens when another programmer reviews the code using a different font and finds that there is only 3.5em worth of space? Do we descend into Calibri / Verdana line-length edit wars? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
