Ant wrote: > I think Duncan has hit the nail on the head here really. I totally > agree that conceptually using tabs for indentation is better than using > spaces. Pragmatically though, you can't tell in an editor where spaces > are used and where tabs are used. >
Um, I don't follow this. If you can't tell the editor where tabs/spaces are used, who does? > Perhaps if editors colored the background of tab characters differently > from spaces this wouldn't be a problem, Some editors do. > or if Python was more > restrictive and did not actually allow a mix of tabs and spaces for > indentation there would be no problem - the compiler could throw out an > exception for mixed characters. python -tt > In reality, neither of these are likely > to be implemented any time soon! um Iain -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
