> Ant wrote: > > 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? Re-read my post. Note the key word 'in'. > > Perhaps if editors colored the background of tab characters differently > > from spaces this wouldn't be a problem, > Some editors do. Some isn't nearly good enough to solve the problem. > python -tt Not the default behaviour, and so not good enough for tabs to be a good indent character. > > In reality, neither of these are likely > > to be implemented any time soon! > > um OK. Widely implemented and default behaviour. Your points are fine if you are working by yourself (hell you could use Perl and it wouldn't matter ;-) ), but in for example an open source project where work is distributed over developers working in vastly different environments, tabs currently aren't a workable option. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
