> On 19 March 2017 at 01:39, Steve D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> On Sun, 19 Mar 2017 08:24 am, Mikhail V wrote: >> >> I've noticed a tendency that more and more users >> choose tabs.
>Have you really? I've noticed the opposite. Not *really*, but on stackoverflow more and more answers recommending tabs are upvoted. Few years ago IIRC I noticed merely upvoted PEP citations. Of my friends, I know those who use Sublime editor on Macs, use tabs, probably spaces cause issues there, IDK. Younger people today have more and more previous experience with digital documents and already familiar with the concept of tabulation. Also after one tries to move the cursor around line beginnings and try to delete or add indentation, with spaces it is not so easy. On the other hand I've noticed that spacists are for some reason quite active in the web and at times even agressive, writing that tabs are 'cancer' and so on. >> Indeed if you think about it, using several spaces for >> one level of indentation is ridiculous >Is it? Yes it is. In the times of DOS it felt totally ok to indent e.g. 2 spaces, but those were text mode apps on small resolution screens. Now one wants more than 2 spaces for sure, and for Python specifically, the intuitive wish is to use one tab for one indentation level, since one already knows that indentation is important and despite spaces work, those are not control characters. The point is that spaces are not supposed for indentation regardless if it is code or MS Word document, at least in the modern world. This reminds me of Lexicon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexicon_(program) It is a DOS text-mode word processor, to make full line justify it inserts additional spaces between words. All those space alignments is more about ASCII art. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
