Xah Lee wrote: > Tabs versus Spaces in Source Code > > Xah Lee, 2006-05-13 > > In coding a computer program, there's often the choices of tabs or > spaces for code indentation. There is a large amount of confusion about > which is better. It has become what's known as “religious war” — > a heated fight over trivia. In this essay, i like to explain what is > the situation behind it, and which is proper. > > Simply put, tabs is proper, and spaces are improper. Why? This may seem > ridiculously simple given the de facto ball of confusion: the semantics > of tabs is what indenting is about, while, using spaces to align code > is a hack. >
i agree, tabs is proper and i always use the tab key to indent... it puts in 4 spaces. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
