On Dec 02, Dave Hansen wrote: > Python recognizes the TAB character as valid indentation. TAB > characters are evil. They should be banned from Python source code.
AGREE! AGREE! AGREE! > The interpreter should stop translation of code and throw an > exception when one is encountered. You could file a "Parser/Compiler" Feature Request for this (Hmm, sf.net appears to have just renamed "Request For Enhancment" to "Feature Request"). Seems the present enformencement of disallowing tab/space mixing is with -t and -tt. From PEP-8 <URL:http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0008.html>: ... Tabs or Spaces? Never mix tabs and spaces. The most popular way of indenting Python is with spaces only. ... Code indented with a mixture of tabs and spaces should be converted to using spaces exclusively. ... When invoking the python command line interpreter with the -t option, it issues warnings about code that illegally mixes tabs and spaces. When using -tt these warnings become errors. These options are highly recommended! For new projects, spaces-only are strongly recommended over tabs. Most editors have features that make this easy to do. If your "FR" is approved, -t and -tt could apply to any use of tabs. +1 from me. -- _ _ ___ |V|icah |- lliott <>< [EMAIL PROTECTED] " " """ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
