On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 5:20 AM Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > This poster is 200% correct. Somewhere, someplace, there should be easily > found rule that dictates where one can use a tab, and where spaces only > are allowed.
Ask the people who maintain makefiles whether that's a good thing or not. HINT: Many will say no. > > > That > > > said, there is an easy fix for tab misuse: in Visual Studio Code, > > > you can replace all Tabs with Spaces by highlighting the entire code > > > block, hitting Tab once and Shift-Tab after. > > But that automatically assumes one is running in a windows environment. I > don't allow it on the premises if I own the machine. Are there good, > alternatives that run on linux? VSCode runs on Linux. Also, there are easy ways to do the same sort of thing in many editors that I've used. > > IDLE does that also. > > > And idle for python-2.7 runs on linux. (Not sure why you specifically say 2.7, as IDLE for any version of Python runs on Linux, far as I know.) > We have a mostly python app called > camview that runs on and with LinuxCNC. Giving us the ability to mark a > feature on a workpiece, and create a set of co-ordinates that autoaligns > the workpiece and a about to be carved code. But with a 640x480 camera, > the view dies if the display window its given is equal to or larger, at > which point it dies/goes away, whatever, and the only way to restore it > to operational status is to reboot the machine. > > I've installed idle on that particular machine, and will see if it will > call my attention to bad coding. I'll be most appreciative if it can > find something that will make this code Just Work(TM). Thank you for > mentioning it, Terry. I don't understand what any of this has to do with anything. Do you suspect that your code is fraught with indentation bugs? If so, pretty much ANY Python-aware editor will help you, as will Python 3.x, as will Python2 with the "-tt" option. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
