On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 4:39 AM, Steve D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > And yet I'm forever being told by my Linux sys admin work mates "don't use > tabs, because they break everything". For another example, see JMZ's essay > (its already been linked to twice in this thread, look it up). > > We've had a similar attitude right here from Marko, who insists that > anything except 8-column tabs is the Devil's Work. (Or something like > that -- to be perfectly honest, I'm not really sure I understand *what* > Marko's objection is.) > > So okay, if tabs work fine with Unix tools, why do so many Unix people avoid > tabs as if they were radioactive plague?
Can you ask your workmates to elaborate? I'd love to hear. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
